Yuri Vladimirovich Lomonosov

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Yuri Wladimirowitsch Lomonossow ( Russian Юрий Владимирович Ломоносов ; born April 24, 1876 in Gschatsk , † November 19, 1952 in Montreal , Canada ) was a Russian transport scientist and railway pioneer . One of his ancestors was the polymath Mikhail Lomonosov .

Yuri Vladimirovich Lomonosov

Life

Yuri Lomonosov studied and received his doctorate at the Institute of Transport Infrastructures in Saint Petersburg ( Петербургский государственный университет путей сообщения ). In the summer of 1917, under the government of Alexander Fyodorowitsch Kerensky , Lomonosov was head of the Russian railway company and worked as an accredited ambassador to Washington . In 1918 Yuri Lomonossow was employed in the Soviet information office of Ludwig Christian Karl Alexander Martens in Washington and initiated purchases at International Harvester .

In May 1919 Maxim Maximowitsch Litvinow called him back to Europe. Yuri Lomonossow headed a foreign trade commission in the German Reich in the summer of 1919 with Leonid B. Krasin (* 1870; † 1926, Красин before 1917 director at Siemens in St. Petersburg). On August 23, 1919, he visited the Hanomag company , one of the most productive manufacturers of locomotives in Germany. In general, Yuri Lomonossow obtained extensive information on locomotive construction in Germany.

The first operational mainline diesel locomotive Юэ 001 in Kiev, built under Lomonosov's direction

From 1921 to 1922, the Esslingen machine factory produced the 4035 and 4081 diesel-electric locomotives for the Soviet Union . The contract had been awarded to the Hohenzollern Aktiengesellschaft für Lokomotivbau , but was not carried out there because of the occupation of the Ruhr.

Between 1924 and 1925 Lomonossov lived in Berlin and reported his negotiations to Russia. In addition, he took on the task of designing a diesel locomotive with electrical power transmission for use on the Trans-Siberian Railway with a team of engineers and scientists . As a result, from 1923 a machine with the axle sequence type 1'Eo 1 'with an output of 1200 hp was built in the machine factory in Esslingen . In the spring of 1924, the completed locomotive was transferred to test runs on the broad gauge lines of the Soviet railways and in February 1925 it was incorporated into the Soviet railways under the designation Юэ 001 . It is considered to be the world's first operational mainline diesel locomotive. The story of its origins is said to be: “Lomonosoff finally ordered on his own from Hohenzollern AG in Düsseldorf. Fortunately, the approach was subsequently approved by the Council of People's Commissars. But when the occupation of the Ruhr began in 1923 , Lomonosoff made an additional agreement with Hohenzollern, according to which the construction of his favorite child - the diesel-electric locomotive - was assigned to the Esslingen machine factory. "

After that, Yuri Lomonosov decided not to return to the Soviet Union and worked as a consultant and teacher. From the Technical University of Berlin , he was 1926, Dr.-Ing. awarded on an honorary basis. Between 1927 and 1948 he toured several European countries and the United States. In England he worked with the physicist Pjotr ​​Leonidowitsch Kapiza (1894–1984) on an electromechanical brake system for locomotives. In 1938 he and his wife Raisa became British citizens. Since 1948 he lived in Canada, where he died after a brief illness.

Works

  • The Russian March Revolution 1917: Memories. Author. Translated by Ania Ankerstamm, Munich: Drei Masken Verlag 1921
  • The diesel-electric locomotive. Translated from d. Soot. by Erich Mrongovius. [For guidance: Conrad Matschoss] Berlin: VDI-Verlag 1924
  • Locomotive tests in Russia. Translated from d. Soot. by E. Mrongovius. [Escort: Gustav Hammer] Berlin: VDI-Verlag 1926
  • Diesel locomotives. From d. Russian Ms. transl. by E. Mrongovius, through. by F. Meineke Berlin: VDI-Verlag 1929
Reprints: Düsseldorf: VDI-Verlag, 1985 ISBN 3-18-400676-X (introduction to the reprint edition Wolfgang Messerschmidt) and Braunschweig: Archiv-Verl., [2001]

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anthony Heywood, Modernizing Lenin's Russia: economic reconstruction, foreign trade and the Railways , p. 71
  2. ^ Wolfgang Messerschmidt: Lokomotiven der Maschinenfabrik Esslingen, license printing 1984, transpress publishing house for traffic
personal data
SURNAME Lomonosov, Yuri Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ломоносов, Юрий Владимирович (Russian); Lomonossoff, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian railway pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Gschatsk
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1952
Place of death Montreal