Autograph. Nikitinskiy ya Ya Oil and that is obtained from it. With 13 figures in the text.

Autograph. Nikitinskiy ya Ya Oil and that is obtained from it. With 13 figures in the text.

M Tipo-Lit.Arkhipova and By 1880 39 p. publishing cover, 12 x 17.3 cm. Condition: good, seals.

Yakov Yakovlevich Nikitinsky (1854-1924)-scientist, Professor and Dean of the commercial and technical Department of the Imperial Moscow technical school, Full state Councilor, founder of the scientific commodity science of food products, Soviet chemist-technologist.

He was born in a Moscow merchant family. Elder brother of N. ya. Nikitinsky. He received secondary education at the 4th Moscow gymnasium. In 1876, he graduated from the Imperial Moscow technical school with the title of engineer-technologist and a gold medal. He was left at the school and entered the service on September 1, 1877; from November 3, 1878, he was a laboratory assistant; from 1880, he taught chemical technology and supervised practical classes in the technical laboratory.

In March 1886, for his dissertation "Boiler scale, rusting and corroding of steam boilers and means for destroying these phenomena", he was awarded the title of scientific engineer-technologist and in 1890 received the post of Professor at the Department of chemical technology; since 1895-head of the Department of technology of nutrients. Since 1909 — Professor Emeritus.

Since 1883, he taught at the Moscow agricultural Institute; in 1895-1908, he was an associate Professor and head of the Department of agricultural technology.

In 1899, he received the rank of full state Councilor.

The teaching of commodity Y. Y. Nikitinskiy gave 47 years. He was one of the organizers of the higher commercial educational institution in Russia and was the founder of scientific commodity science, which was taught on the basis of physics, chemistry, natural science, as well as technology, agricultural and economic Sciences. He taught commodity science at the Moscow commercial Institute since its Foundation (February 19, 1907). In 1908, he organized the Department of food and non-food products, becoming its first head. In 1912, he took the position of supernumerary ordinary Professor of commodity science. First Dean of the commercial and technical Department of the Moscow commercial Institute.

Together with Professor P. p. Petrov, he published (1906-1908) the first fundamental textbook "guide to commodity science with the necessary information from technology" in two volumes: the first volume considered industrial goods, the second – food. These textbooks have been used by students of not only the commercial Institute, but also other educational institutions for three decades.

In the Preface to the first edition of the textbook the authors wrote: "The teaching of commodity science should be scientific and should be based on knowledge of natural science, physics, chemistry; technology in the course of commodity science should have an auxiliary meaning and be presented as much as necessary for a proper understanding of the origin, quality and meaning of the goods described."

In 1910, a probation Committee began working at the commercial Institute under the leadership of Nikitinsky, giving the right to the title of teacher of special subjects in commercial educational institutions. He drew up a program of examinations for the title of associate Professor. The first commodity specialists who passed this training were: V. R. Williams, A. M. Bochvar and F. V. Tserevitinov.

After the revolution, he participated in the organization of the Soviet food industry.

Daughter of ya. ya. Nikitinsky Alexandra Yakovlevna (1886-1961), by her first husband Manteuffel — a well — known Soviet microbiologist, associate Professor at Moscow state University; long-term assistant, and since about 1940-the wife of the founder of Russian technical Microbiology, academician V. N. Shaposhnikov. Nikitinsky also had two sons.