ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN TECHNICAL SOCIETY AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR

The article is devoted to the 50th anniversary of the Russian Technical Society
and V.I. Kovalevskii’s speech at the General Meeting of the Society on May, 25 1916
on the occasion of the anniversary. It has been emphasized that in his speech Kovalevsky
relied primarily on his report "Basic needs of Russian industry" submitted to
the Commission for Industry of the Russian Technical Society on April 29, 1915, in
which he gave deep analyses of the Russian industry development in the early XX
century and set targets to be solved by the Russian industry during the First World
War and after its end