📌 Prominent figures who laid the foundations of technical education in Donbas during the 19th–20th centuries.
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## 🧠 Scientific and Technical Society (1827)
• Luhansk Foundry — first technical training courses • 1839 — opening of the Luhansk Factory School
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## 👨🔬 Pioneers of Technical Science
• Ivan Augustovych Time — “Resistance of Metals and Wood to Cutting” • Apollon Fedorovych Mevius — “Metallurgy of Cast Iron and Steel” • Iliodor Fedorovych Felkner — “Machines and Tools for Metal Processing” • Yevgraf Petrovych Kovalevsky — “Geognostical Review of the Donetsk Ridge” (1829)
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## 🏫 Early Educational Institutions
• Luhansk Craft School • Pushkin School • Technical courses at industrial plants
📌 These figures laid the groundwork for the establishment of the Luhansk Technical School in 1920.