100th anniversary of the main "locomotive" of the Orenburg region
The strategy of socio-economic development of the Orenburg region until 2020 and for the period until 2030 provides for a number of transformations in the region based on the natural resource potential, polycentric settlement system, favorable geopolitical position, transit potential of the Orenburg region. A special emphasis in the Strategy is placed on the development of railway transport, overland Eurasian international transport corridors. The unique geopolitical position of the Orenburg region necessitated the presence of a developed railway transport network in this region and, accordingly, the training of appropriate personnel.The history of one of the oldest educational institutions of the Orenburg region — the Orenburg Technical School of Railway Transport is considered.Archival materials, published sources (periodicals, Internet resources), personal memoirs of teachers, employees and students of Orenburg Technical School of Railway Transport were used. Methods of historicism, consistency, analysis are applied.The creation of Orenburg Technical School of Railway Transport, the position of the technical school in the difficult 1920s, during the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period, the expansion of the educational institution and the change of its location, the current state of the technical school and its potential are shown.Today, we can say with complete confidence that Orenburg Technical School of Railway Transport is a kind of "locomotive" that provides highly qualified personnel to a strategically important region of Russia and the development of railway transport in the region.