February 8 – 190 years since the birth of Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev

February 8, 2024 marks 190 years since the birth of Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev – the great Russian scientist-encyclopedist: chemist, physicochemist, physicist, metrologist, economist, technologist, geologist, meteorologist, oilman, teacher, aeronautician, instrument maker.

Some interesting facts from Dmitry’s biography Ivan Ivanovich:

• 1880-1888 — took an active part in the development of the project for the creation and construction of the first Siberian University in Russian Asia in Tomsk, repeatedly advising the head of the TSU Construction Committee, Professor Vasily Markovich Florinsky;
• He was planned as the first rector of this university, but for family reasons he did not go to Tomsk in 1888. A few years later, he actively helped in the creation of the Tomsk Technological Institute and the formation of chemical science in it;
• D. I. Mendeleev was able and loved to bind books, make frames and suitcases, because he learned bookbinding and cardboard making in his youth.