Department of the History of Technology of the Lvov Polytechnic Institute (1948): Organization and Activities (Based on the Documents from the Russian and Ukrainian Archives)

The article deals with the history of the organization of the Department of History of Technology at Lviv Polytechnic Institute in 1948. Reporting documentation of the Department is deposited in several archives of Russia and Ukraine, such as the State Archive of Lviv Oblast, the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Some aspects of the educational process are revealed, museum exhibits of the department, which were kept in the cabinet and museum of the History of Technology, are described. Photographs of various classrooms help to partially reconstruct the classroom environment. The reports of the head of the department and the material and information about the technical base help to form a general idea of the History of Technology course.