Kovrigin, Vladimir Vladimirovich

Vladimir Vladimirovich Kovrigin (1875-1951) - fourth-generation Russian mining engineer.

Vladimir Vladimirovich graduated from the Mining Institute in 1900 and served in the Amur Region and Transbaikalia as an assistant to the district engineer Amursky (1903), Zeysky (1907), the district engineer, and the East Engineer of the East Trans-Baikal about. (1911), ns (1913). Being a descendant of such a powerful kind, Vladimir Vladimirovich was well versed in his profession, proved this in practice and wrote scientific papers, to which, however, he was not very serious. Because his nature was artistic and his heart was drawn to creativity. He was interested in photography (and “infected” this with his son, Kovrigin, Vadim Vladimirovich subsequently became a professional photographer who had permission for Stalin’s personal photo), was a joker and a “bully”, arranged home performances and practical jokes, was interested in theater (his eldest daughter Olga, later , became an actress in the Meyerhold Theater) and even painted (his youngest daughter Tatyana Konovalova-Kovrigina Tatyana Vladimirovna became an honored artist of Russia). It so happened that he was able to develop and increase his talents in children, giving the world three personalities at once. He also gave his own professional engineering skills a creative move, he constantly made, like a Lefthander, some incredible little things, a lock in the form of a dog, which it was possible to open, knowing only a secret button, or a huge wall clock, In 1916 he released the newspaper "Nerchinsky whisper"

"The newspaper is daily, only for one day February 20, 1916

In favor of the Ladies Committee at the Nerchinsk Local Government

Russian Red Cross Society.

Published in Nerchinsk, Trans-Baikal Region in 1916

Editor-publisher: V.V. Kovrigin.

Publication format: 51 cm., 4 pages. "

and much, much more ... His creative nature attracted an infinite number of talented people to him. The artist Mikhail Mikhailovich Cheremnykh and his sister, Nina Nikolaevna Vatolina , often visited their house, Rodchenko was also in attendance, and the friendship of the intellectual and creative intelligentsia, which had become a tradition for a long time, continued.