Fedor Pirotsky

Background

Fyodor was born to the family of a military physician in Lokhvytsia Uezd of Poltava Gubernia (currently, Ukraine).

Education

Fyodor graduated from the Konstantin Cadet Corps (Konstantinovskiy Kadetskiy Korpus) and Mikhail Artillery School (both in Saint St. Petersburg) in 1866 and served in Kiev with the Fortress Artillery.

Career

While the commercialization of his inventions in Russia was relatively slow, Pirotsky is known to met with Carl Heinrich von Siemens and to influence Siemens" eventual introduction of the first regular electric tram line (for the Berlin Straßenbahn). His family was of Ukrainian Cossacks ancestry.

Connections

Friend:

Pavel Yablochkov