Yury Lomonosov

Yuri Vladimirovich Lomonosov (Russian Юрий Владимирович Ломоносов; born April 24, 1876 in Gzhatsk, † November 19, 1952 in Montreal, Canada) was a Russian scientist and transport railway pioneer.

Life

His ancestors belonged to Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov.

Yuri Lomonosov studied and graduated at the Department for Transport Infrastructure in Saint Petersburg ( Петербургский государственный университет путей сообщения ). In the summer of 1917 under the government of Alexander Kerensky Lomonosov head of the Russian railway company and as an accredited ambassador in Washington worked. 1918 Yuri Lomonosov was busy in the Soviet Information Bureau of Ludwig Christian Alexander Karl Martens in Washington and paved purchases from International Harvester to.

Under the Trans-Siberian railway line Lomonosov was traced out and developed a number of locomotives for Russian track gauge of 1524 mm. In May 1919, Maxim Litvinov Maximowitsch called him back to Europe. Yuri Lomonosov initiated in the summer of 1919 with Leonid B. Krasin (* 1870, † 1926, before 1917 Красин Director at Siemens in St. Petersburg ) is a Foreign Trade Commission in the German Reich. On August 23, 1919, he visited the company Hanomag, one of the most prolific manufacturer of locomotives in Germany, generally is Yuri Lomonmossow informed extensively about the locomotive in Germany.

1921-1922 at the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen the diesel -electric locomotive was produced 4035 and 4081 for the Soviet Union. The contract had been awarded to the corporation for locomotive Hohenzollern, but was not executed there because of the occupation of the Ruhr.

Between 1924 and 1925 Lomonosov lived in Berlin and rapportierte its negotiations to Russia. He also took on the task of constructing a team of engineers and scientists a diesel locomotive with electric power transmission for use on the Trans -Siberian Railway. As a result, a machine with the Achsfolgebauart 1'Eo 1 ' with 1200 hp power built in the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen in 1923. In the spring of 1924, the completed locomotive was transferred to test drives on the broad gauge lines of the Soviet railroads and acquired in February 1925 under the name Юэ 001 in the existence of the Soviet railways. It is considered the first operation suitable for mainline diesel locomotive in the world. For the legislative history states: " Lomonosoff finally ordered on their own at the Hohenzollern AG in Dusseldorf. The procedure was fortunately subsequently approved by the Council of People's Commissars. But when in 1923 the Ruhr occupation began Lomonosoff met with Hohenzollern an additional agreement, after which the construction of his favorite child - the diesel-electric locomotive -. Maschinenfabrik Esslingen was transferred "

Then Yuri Lomonosov decided not to return to the Soviet Union and worked as a consultant and teacher. From the Technical University Berlin it was 1926, the Dr. -Ing. Honorary awarded. Between 1927 and 1948 he toured several European countries and the United States. In England, he worked with the physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (1894-1984) to an electromechanical braking system for locomotives. In 1938 he and his wife Raisa British citizens. Since 1948 he lived in Canada, where he died after a brief illness.

Works

• The Russian March Revolution 1917: memories. Author. Übers by Ania anchor stem, Munich: Three masks Publisher 1921
• The diesel - electric locomotive. Transl. from Russ d. by Erich Mrongovius. [ Preface: Conrad Matschoss ] Berlin: VDI -Verlag 1924
• Lokomotiv trials in Russia. Transl. from Russ d. E. Mrongovius. [ Geleitw. Gustav Hammer] Berlin: VDI -Verlag 1926
• Diesel locomotives. Over Aus d russ Ms.. E. Mrongovius, durchges. by F. Meineke Berlin: VDI -Verlag 1929