Register of the Nikolai Petrovich Kalugin papers

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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

Access

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Use

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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

 

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE 1921-1987

Scope and Contents note

Articles, curriculum vitae, death notices, educational, employment and medical records, and miscellany, arranged alphabetically by physical form.
box 1, folder 1

Articles mentioning Kalugin

box 1, folder 2

Curriculum vitae.

Scope and Contents note

Includes autobiographical notes
box 1, folder 3

Death notices

box 1, folder 4

Educational records

box 1, folder 5

Employment records.

Scope and Contents note

Includes contracts, correspondence and letters of recommendation
box 1, folder 6

Medical records

box 1, folder 7

Miscellany

 

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS 1959-1981

Scope and Contents note

Articles, reviews and speech, arranged chronologically by title.
See also: SUBJECT FILE/Kharbinskii Politekhnicheskii Institut for printed copies of Kalugin's articles in the journal Politekhnik and additional articles not listed here.
box 1, folder 8

General. Reviews of Politekhnik 1971-1981

Scope and Contents note

Holographs and printed copies
box 1, folder 9

Speech before a group of Harbin Polytechnic alumni in San Francisco on the occasion of the 37th anniversary of the institute's founding 1959 May 11

Scope and Contents note

Holograph
box 1, folder 10

"Iubileinaia data Kharbinskogo politekhnicheskogo instituta," Novaia zaria 1970 October 28

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy
box 1, folder 11

"Pamiati professora P. S. Sviridova" [1971]

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Holograph
box 1, folder 12

"75-letie Kitaiskoi Vostochnoi zheleznoi dorogi," Novaia zaria 1972 January 21

Scope and Contents note

Holograph and printed copy
box 1, folder 13

"Nachal'noe razvitie goroda Kharbina," Novaia zaria 1972 January 25

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy
box 1, folder 14

"2-oe aprelia 1922 goda," Politekhnik 1972 April 2

Scope and Contents note

Holograph
box 1, folder 15

"Piatidesiataia godovshchina osnovaniia Kharbinskogo politekhnicheskogo instituta," Russkaia zhizn' 1972 May 31

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy
box 1, folder 16

"Semidesiatiletie Kitaisnoi Vostochnoi zheleznoi dorogi," Russkaia zhizn' 1972 August 18

Scope and Contents note

Holograph and printed copy
box 1, folder 17

"Pamiati bol'shogo russkogo inzhenera Stepana Prokof'evicha Timoshenko," Russkaia zhizn' 1972 November 2

Scope and Contents note

Holograph and printed copy. Includes background materials and slightly different version of article entitled "Pamiati zasluuzhennogo professora S. P. Timoshenko," Novaia zaria, 1972 June 13. Printed copy
box 1, folder 18

Review of a concert performance by Irina Arkhipova 1972 November 26

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Holograph and advertisement
box 1, folder 19

"Bokserskoe dvizhenie pri postroike KVzhd," Novaia zaria 1973 March 17

Scope and Contents note

Holograph and printed copy
box 1, folder 20

"Igor' Ivanovich Sikorskii," Politekhnik 1973 April 2

Scope and Contents note

Background materials and holograph (fragment)
box 1, folder 21

"Krizis amerikanskogo inzhenera," Novaia zaria 1973 April 26

Scope and Contents note

Background materials and printed copy
box 1, folder 22

"Moi kharbinskie gody," Politekhnik 1974 April 2

Scope and Contents note

Holograph
box 1, folder 23

"Russkie inzhenery v SshA," Politekhnik 1975 April 2

Scope and Contents note

Background materials and holograph
box 1, folder 24

"K 60-oi godovshchine osnovaniia Politekhnicheskogo instituta v gorode Kharbine," Russkaia zhizn' 1980 May 16

Scope and Contents note

Holograph and typescript
 

SUBJECT FILE 1930-1999

Scope and Contents note

Diploma, printed matter and writings, arranged alphabetically by subject.
 

Kharbinskii politekhnicheskii institut

box 1, folder 25

General

Scope and Contents note

Includes diploma of G. P. Kravetskii (relative of Kalugin), published historical overviews, and clippings about the institute
box 1, folder 26

Den' Politekhnika 1928, 1930

box 1, folder 27

Izvestiia i trudy Russko-Kitaiskago politekhnicheskago instituta, #1 and #4 1924-1925

 

Politekhnik

box 2

#1 - #9 1969-1978

box 3

#10 - #15 and jubilee issue (1982), unnumbered 1979-1999

box 3, folder 1

Russians--China

Scope and Contents note

Clippings, notes and writings related primarily to Russians in Harbin and the Chinese Eastern Railway
box 3, folder 2

Miscellany

box 3, folder 3

PHOTOGRAPHS 1921-1972

Scope and Contents note

Album and one print, depicting mainly individuals and events associated with the Harbin Polytechnic Institute.