Admiral A.A.Popov, a prominent naval architect,
the designer of the first round ships (armoured batteries known
as 'popovkas'), the Livadia royal yacht, the first Russian
armour-clad battleship Petr Velikiy ('Peter the Great')
and the world-first ocean armoured cruiser General-Admiral,
becomes one of the first to state the need for a national model
basin.
Dmitry I.Mendeleev
The Naval Technical Committee of
the Naval Administration in charge of all shipbuilding matters
for the first time favours the idea of establishing in the country
a ship model tank initially suggested by a great Russian scientist
D.I.Mendeleev.
The idea of setting up a model basin
finds active support from the Head of the Naval Administration,
General-Admiral Great Duke Aleksey Alexandrovich.
General-Admiral Great Duke
Aleksey Alexandrovich
1890
The Marine Technical Committee approved the model
basin preliminary design.
A pert of the Model Basin building drawing
(blueprint)
Cover page of the Naval Administration file of model basin foundation documents
1892
Aleksey A.Grekhnev
A channel trough encased in concrete,
a building over it and a two-storey block of office and auxiliary
rooms are erected on the New Holland Island in St.Petersburg.
A.A.Grekhnev, a lecturer (later professor) at the Naval Academy
is appointed the superintendent of the new institution.
The model basin building on the New Holland Island (St.Petersburg) (right and centre)
