Evgeny Kozubsky
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Evgeny Ivanovich Kozubsky | |
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Євген Іванович Козубський | |
| Born | 1851 |
| Died | 1911 Temir-Khan-Shura, Dagestan Oblast, Russian Empire |
| Alma mater | Imperial Novorossiya University |
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Evgeny Ivanovich Kozubsky (Ukrainian: Євген Іванович Козубський; Russian: Евгений Иванович Козубский; 1851–1911[1]) was a Russian-Dagestani scholar, educator, and public official. He served as secretary of the Dagestan Regional Statistical Committee (1899–1911). From 1881 to 1902, he taught at the Temir-Khan-Shura Real School and the Temir-Khan-Shura Women's Gymnasium. He was the founder of the Ivan Kostemerevsky Museum of Handicrafts (1910–1911; officially opened posthumously in 1913). Kozubsky authored statistical collections and works on the history, ethnography, and geography of Dagestan and was an avid collector of folk art and crafts.
Evgeny Kozubsky was born in 1851 in Odesa.[2] He graduated from the Richelieu Gymnasium and the Faculty of History and Philology at Novorossiysk University, where he earned the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences. From 1878 to 1881 he taught history at the Tiflis Gymnasium.[3]
In 1881 he was transferred to Temir-Khan-Shura (now Buynaksk), the capital of the Dagestan Region.[2] From 1881 to 1902 he taught history and geography at the Temir-Khan-Shura Real School and the Temir-Khan-Shura Women's Gymnasium. He also served as class mentor for grades II–VI,[4] acted as inspector of the school, substituted as teacher of French, and was secretary of the gymnasium's pedagogical council (1884–1887).[3] He participated in a commission on improving the teaching of Russian language and literature in the Caucasus Educational District[4] and contributed to the development of the main and student libraries.[2]
From 1899 to 1911 Kozubsky served as secretary of the Dagestan Regional Statistical Committee,[5] a position to which he was appointed by resolution of the military governor of Dagestan, Prince Alexander Anatolyevich Baryatinsky. His main work in this role was the preparation of the Reviews of the Condition of the Dagestan Region and annual regional reports.[2] In addition to statistical research, he studied the geography and history of Dagestan,[4] promoted knowledge of its history, geography, and ethnography,[6] and collected folk crafts for the future museum.[7] He also organized the library of the Statistical Committee.[8]
Between 1903 and 1906 he lived in Derbent, where he wrote the monograph The History of the City of Derbent.[4]
In 1910–1911 he was a member of the Committee on the Establishment of the Dagestan Regional Museum. The committee's work was based on Kozubsky's 1901 report Essay on the Handicraft Industry in the Dagestan Region, delivered at the First Caucasus Congress of Workers in the Handicraft Industry, which justified the need for a museum. Kozubsky was responsible for committee administration and the organization of the museum, and in 1911 he was entrusted with its general management. The Ivan Kostemerevsky Handicraft Museum began work in 1912 and was formally opened in 1913.[2]
Kozubsky died suddenly in 1911 and was buried in the Temir-Khan-Shura cemetery.[2]
