The name of Alexander Alexandrovich Bublikov is associated with the February Russian Revolution. He was a member of the State Duma, a communications engineer and publicist.
Bublikov Alexander Alexandrovich was a railway engineer, a member of the State Duma. On his account there are many published works in the main specialty, as well as a work called "Russian Revolution".
Biography
Alexander was born in the new style on May 4, 1875 in St. Petersburg. His father was an official of the Ministry of Railways, so it is not surprising that after graduating from school, the young man also chose a specialty related to the railway and received a specialized education.
Alexander Alexandrovich was a progressive person. He supported the development of the country. For example, in 1912 Bublikov donated a large amount to the Yekaterinburg Mining Institute to support the research of minerals in the Urals. It is not surprising that Alexander Alexandrovich was elected an honorary citizen of this city.
Career
In 1912 Bublikov became a member of the State Duma of the 4th convocation. Here he ran for the Perm province.
During the February Revolution, the engineer was elected commissar of the interim committee. With the help of the railway telegraph, he notified all the station managers that power now belongs to the State Duma.
But by that time, Tsar Nicholas II and his brother Mikhail had not yet abdicated the throne. Therefore, contemporaries believed that it was Bublikov who was ahead of reality and predicted the inevitable.
Public performance
Having become famous, the engineer of communications began an active revolutionary activity. In February 1917, he ordered to stop the train in which the tsar was traveling, then, together with other military men, he arrested the emperor.
The engineer opposed the law passed by the Provisional Government, which spoke of increasing the percentage of tax for citizens and businesses. It was June 12, 1917. And in August of the same year, Alexander Alexandrovich, defending entrepreneurs at the State Conference, said that soon they would stand next to the representatives of the industrial class and would also work to renew Russia so that it would be free and prosperous.
At the end of this speech, the speaker was loudly applauded and shouted: "Bravo!" The meeting ended with a handshake between Bublikov and Irakli Georgievich Tsereteli, whom the railway engineer also defended during his speech.
Creation
Later A. A. Bublikov emigrated to the USA. There he began to write and publish his works, collaborating with the publication "New Russian Word".
But Alexander Alexandrovich began to create his works at home in 1905. He wrote about the construction of the Tomsk-Tashkent railway, about the Petersburg-Siberian railway (1906), about the private construction of railways. In 1915 A. A. Bublikov created a work in which he proved the need for urgent reforms related to tariffs on the railway.
He died at the age of 65. An engineer-publicist passed away at the end of January 1941 in the United States.
