Photos of graduate of secondary technical school

Visit-portrait. To provide specialists rapidly developing Russian industry of the early twentieth century, the Ministry of national education organized a large network of lower and middle technical schools, which were located usually in large industrial centers. In the Kazan technical school studied, for example, Serezha Kostrikov, later better known as Sergei Mironovich Kirov. One of his biographers wrote: "Students of secondary schools can be distinguished from all others at first sight. In their black caps, the collar and cuffs were blue edges. The "lower" edge was not supposed to — no caps, no jacket. And if any front of "lower" could not resist the temptation and make myself a hat with blue edging and such freedom could be costly. In the office of the inspector Shirokov in the corner was a cupboard, and wardrobe on the shelves beside her, nodding in the Studio, the whole dozen caps with piping. These caps inspector himself off innocent heads. For Francisco students had to pay two hours of solitary confinement and even buy a new hat. But the difference between "average" and "inferior" was not in the same piping. After high school, they expect a different fate. "Medium" was prepared in the technique, just not in the engineers, and "low" rarely managed to jump above the foreman, master, or driver... But it didn't prevent the"middle" and "lower" to live together in harmony". In this case, the clothing the pupil is clear signs of frentista and aspirations in the future to make a career technique, which in those days was guaranteed and the income and position in society: jacket with light blue beading, wearable open podrazhanie engineers, and a starched shirt with a tie. About what is depicted preparing to become a technician, shows the emblem on the lapels in the form of a crossed axe and shovel. Dating the can in the manner of wearing clothing and a Mat, typical of the 1910s the Guarantee of authenticity.