Mendeleev street. Webcams Simferopol online

Live webcam broadcasts in real time Mendeleev Street, in the capital of Crimea - Simferopol. In March 1904, this then new street, which arose on the so-called Sultan Meadow, was named Mendeleevskaya. The Duma and the government could not ignore the giant of scientific thought, the creator of the periodic table of elements. Moreover, the great chemist began his career in Simferopol.

After graduating from the St. Petersburg Main Pedagogical Institute, Dmitry Mendeleev had to go to work in Odessa. Pure chance changed the route: the clerk of the institute's chancellery mixed up the papers, and another graduate was sent to Odessa. Mendeleev was offered a place in the Simferopol men's state gymnasium. Before leaving for Simferopol, Mendeleev visited the famous St. Petersburg doctor, later court physician N.F. Zdekauer: the doctors suspected consumption, and Zdekauer doubted this diagnosis. Just in case, he handed Dmitry Ivanovich a letter of recommendation to "who was somewhere in the Crimea" NI Pirogov.

The young specialist (Mendeleev was 28 years old) arrived in Simferopol on October 2 or 3, 1855, when the Crimean War was in full swing. "The whole area, starting from Perekop, is devastated," Dmitry Ivanovich later recalled, "there is no grass anywhere: oxen, camels, carrying terribly endless carts of the wounded, supplies and new troops, have eaten everything." Despite the incredible overload, the great Russian surgeon N.I. Pirogov received Mendeleev and, having examined him, prophetically said that he would outlive both Zdekauer and Pirogov. There was no consumption, and the bleeding was not caused by a life-threatening heart valve defect. The formulary list stored in the Crimean State Archive testifies that D.I. Mendeleev was appointed senior teacher of natural sciences at the Simferopol men's state gymnasium on August 17, 1855.

In the local history literature, doubts were expressed whether Mendeleev worked in a gymnasium. Documents, letters and memoirs of Dmitry Ivanovich himself testify: yes, he worked. There was indeed an infirmary on the second floor of the gymnasium and in its boarding school (apparently, somewhere here two great Russian people met), but classes in all senior grades did not stop. In his free time, D.I. Mendeleev walked for hours on the streets of the city, talked with the participants in the defense of Sevastopol. This can be seen from his letters and memoirs. Here are the lines from the same letter dated October 19, 1855: "The weather is wonderful, which is not in St. Petersburg and in June ... There are the most beautiful areas near the city itself, so sometimes wonderful views flicker between houses, which are painted by a hilly area, whitish limestone cliffs and clumps of trees, especially tall and slender, poplars planted in rows ... ".

DI Mendeleev was drawn to Odessa: there was an excellent city library, which made it possible to continue the scientific work begun in his student years. Soon he learned that the place he had planned was not occupied, and on October 30, 1855, he left Simferopol for his destination - the first gymnasium at the Richelieu Lyceum.