Boklevsky K.P., (1862-1928), Ship Building Engineer

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BOKLEVSKY, Konstantin Petrovich (1862-1928) was a shipbuilding engineer and Major-General of the College of Naval Architects (1914). He graduated from the Technical College of the Naval Department (1884) and from Nikolaevskaya Naval Academy (1888). Boklevsky served at the New Admiralty; in 1901 he was appointed assistant to the chief shipbuilding engineer of the St. Petersburg Military Port. Boklevsky was in charge of building Borodino destroyer and other ships. He was one of the organizers of St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, and founder and Dean of the Faculty of Shipbuilding (1902-23), serving as professor in the Department of Shipbuilding Architecture (from 1902). In 1909, he created the first Aviation School in Russia at the Polytechnic Institute, known as Aeronautic Courses, which later grew into the Faculty of Aircraft Engineering. Boklevsky also set up the laboratory of Aerodynamics and the laboratory of Aircraft Engines. In 1917, he was appointed chief inspector of plants of the Naval Department. In 1920 he was appointed professor of the Naval Academy. From 1902, he lived in the Professors' Wing of the Polytechnic Institute (29 Politekhnicheskaya Street). Boklevsky was buried in Bogoslovskoe cemetery.

References: Повх И. Л. Первая высшая авиационная школа в России // Тр. Ленингр. политехн. ин-та. 1948. № 1. С. 115-132.

V. V. Cheparukhin. Boklevsky Konstantin Petrovich
Politekhnicheskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 29
Повх И. Л. Первая высшая авиационная школа в России // Тр. Ленингр. политехн. ин-та, 1948 Admiralty Dockyards
Sea Port
Polytechnical University
Admiral Makarov Sea Academy
Bogoslovskoe Cemetery