Brylkin, Dmitry Mikhailovich

D.M. Brylkin was born in 1858 into a noble family. In 1881 he graduated from the Mining Institute in St. Petersburg. He was enrolled in the service at the GGU with a secondment to the Nizhny Tagil factories . In the 80s of the XIX century, he served as the manager of the Nizhny Tagil copper and iron mines in the Urals District. Then, since 1887, he served as mining director at the Goroblagodatsky factories ^[1] . In 1889, he headed the newly formed Dombrovsky Mining School, located in the village. Dombrow of the Bendinsky district of the Petrokov province of the Kingdom of Poland ^[2] .

The school graduated assistant steigers and factory directors, the training lasted four years ^[3] . After serving one year, graduates held exams for shteigers and setters and after 10 years of immaculate service received personal honorary citizenship ^[4] . It was D. M. Brylkin who laid the foundations of Polish mountain education, which, of course, had its own specifics. In particular, when developing teaching principles, D. Brylkin used the experience of German and French mountain schools, the work of which he met during numerous business trips abroad. An important requirement placed on candidates for students in foreign mining schools was preliminary practice at a mine or plant. The required duration of such work varied from six months to four years. In Russian mountain schools, preliminary practical work was optional. Moreover, as D.M. rightly wrote Brylkin, “The practice is very useful, since it was it that gave the students a practical idea, and contributed to a faster understanding by the students of the studied subject. The students, entering the mountain school, already had an idea what service awaits them ” ^[5] . The Dombrow Mining School was the only one in the Russian Empire that indicated that the presence of preliminary practice gives an advantage in admission ^[6] . He managed the school until 1899, then transferred this post to the titular adviser Dmitriev.

Since 1903 D.M. Brylkin was the deputy chief, and since 1913 - the chief of the Western Mining Administration of the Russian Empire . In 1914, he was chairman of the VIII-th Congress of Mining Industrialists of the Kingdom of Poland ^[7] .

After the revolution - professor at the Department of Mining Art of the Moscow Mining Academy (until 1924).

Since 1906, he has been a State Councilor . In 1896 he was awarded the Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree ^[8]

Wife - Alexandra Nikolaevna Brylkina, nee Tumkovskaya

Daughter - Lydia, born in 1883.