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Scope and Content Note
Title: Nikolai Petrovich Kalugin papers
Date (inclusive): 1921-1999
Collection Number: 2000C110
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
3 microfilm reels
(0.45 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Speeches and writings, printed matter, personal documents, and photographs, relating to Russian émigré affairs, and especially
to the Kharbinskii Politekhnicheskii Institut.
Creator:
Kalugin, Nikolaĭ Petrovich, 1902-1987
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Acquired in 2000.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Nikolai Petrovich Kalugin Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Location of Originals
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
Chronology
1902 February 17 |
Born, Khabarovsk, Russia |
1924 |
Graduated, Kharbinskii politekhnicheskii institut, Harbin, China |
1925-1935 |
Civil engineer, Technical Department, Chinese Eastern Railway |
1935-1947 |
Engineer and contractor, Harbin, China |
1954 January 8 |
Arrived in Brazil |
1987 November 24 |
Died, San Francisco, California |
Biography
Nikolai Petrovich Kalugin was born in Khabarovsk on 17 February 1902. He graduated from the Kharbinskii Politekhnicheskii
Institut as a civil engineer in 1924, and worked in that capacity for the Technical Department of the Chinese Eastern Railway
until 1935. From 1935 to 1947, he headed his own engineering and contracting firm in Harbin, working on some of the larger
construction projects in the city at that time. He also worked in the Philippines in this period. In 1941 he was elected president
of the Society of Engineers in Manchuria, and from 1948-1953 lectured at the Kharbinskii Politekhnicheskii Institut.
Kalugin arrived in Brazil in 1954, working for Morrison Knudsen on the Itutinga Power Project, but ultimately received a visa
for the United States (1958), where he remained until his death in San Francisco on 24 November 1987. He was devoted to his
alma mater, the Harbin Polytechnic Institute, and collected many materials on it, including photographs and a run of the journal
issued by its graduates abroad, Politekhnik, which also carried a number of articles written by Kalugin himself.
Scope and Content Note
The bulk of this collection deals with Russians in Manchuria and particularly Harbin in the 1920s-1940s. N. P. Kalugin was
an engineer, and his papers contain significant information on the Russko-kitaiskii politekhnicheskii institut, later the
Harbin Polytechnic Institute (Kharbinskii politekhnicheskii institut), including a complete run of the periodical
Politekhnik, issued by its alumni association in Australia, and collected after his death by Kalugin's son, Nikolai.
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the Museum
of Russian Culture, San Francisco as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is available
at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the
United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Russians -- China
Engineers
Railroads -- China
Chinese Eastern Railway
Kharbinskiĭ politekhnicheskiĭ institut