Robert Eduardowitsch Klassohn

Robert Artur Eduardovich Klas son ( Russian Роберт Эдуардович Классон ; born January 31 ^{. Jul} / 12. February  1868 ^greg. In Kiev ; † 11. February 1926 in Moscow ) was a Russian electrical engineer .

Life

Klassohn's grandfather Ernest Klassohn was a free, evidently Germanized Swede . Klassohn's father Eduard Klassohn was born in Ujesd Jakobstadt in the Courland Governorate in 1829 , became a pharmacist and remained a foreigner in the Russian Empire all his life .

Klassohn entered the 1st Kiev high school at the age of 8. In 1886 he began studying at the Technological Institute in Saint Petersburg , which he graduated in 1891. Then he did an internship in Germany . Under the direction of Michail Ossipowitsch Doliwo-Dobrowolski , Klassohn was involved in the construction of the three-phase transmission between Lauffen and Frankfurt on the occasion of the International Electrotechnical Exhibition in Frankfurt am Main in 1891 . In St. Petersburg he took part in the first Marxist circles with Mikhail Ivanovich Brusnew , Leonid Borisovich Krassin , Nadeschda Konstantinovna Krupskaya and others . Klassohn later gave up political activities.

From 1895 to 1896 Klas son directed the construction of the three-phase AC power - power plant for the Okhta powder factories in St. Petersburg. From 1897 to 1898 he was involved in the project planning and construction management of the city power plants in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

From 1900, Klassohn and Leonid Borissowitsch Krassin took part in the electrification of the oil industry in Baku . In particular, he was involved in the construction of the Bibi Heybat power station on the Bayıl peninsula . When he refused to suppress the workers' strike in 1906 , he was forced to resign from his position as director of the newly founded Baku joint stock company Elektrosila .

In 1906, Klassohn became director of the Moscow thermal power station MGES-1. From 1912 to 1914 he took part in the organization of the construction of the first Russian peat power plant GRES-3 in Elektrogorsk . He suggested a hydraulic method for peat extraction , which he then developed together with engineer VD Kirpitschnjakow. The process was to be used at the Shatura power station in 1916 , which then did not take place until the beginning of the 1920s as a result of the February revolution in 1917 and the October revolution . In 1914 he was the construction of the 70- kV - high-voltage line from Bogorodsk involved to Moscow.

From 1918 to 1920, Klassohn participated in the development of the GOELRO plan for the electrification of Russia. During the last years of his life he devoted himself to the problem of peat drying.

Klassohn died at a meeting of the Supreme Council of Economics after giving a passionate speech on energy supplies. He was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery. A Klassohn monument has been standing on the station square in Elektrogorsk since 2014. The GRES-3 and streets in Mirny and Osjorny as well as the village of Klasson bear Klassohn's name.

The artist Ekaterina Robertowna Klassohn was Klassohn's daughter and married the poet Valentin Jakowlewitsch Parnach .

Web links

• Worldcat: Klasson, Robert Ėduardovich 1868-1926

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Большая российская энциклопедия: КЛАССО́Н Роберт Эдуардович (accessed July 6, 2019).
2. ↑ Михаил Классон: Роберт Классон и Мотовиловы - Биографические очерки (accessed July 5, 2019).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Михаил Классон: Роберт Классон и Мотовиловы - Биографические очерки: Везение инженера Роберт 6 July 2019 (accessed on 6 July 2019.
4. ↑ Mosenergo Museum: Роберт Эдуардович Классон (accessed July 6, 2019).
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Geologam: Роберт Эдуардович Классон (accessed on July 6, 2019).
6. ↑ Михаил Классон: Роберт Классон и Мотовиловы - Биографические очерки: Шведско-немецкие корни. Киевские родственники (accessed July 5, 2019).
7. ↑ Памятник Роберту Классону установили на привокзальной площади 4 сентября (accessed July 6, 2019).