Background
Postnikov, Fedor Alexis was born on February 29, 1872 in Kovno, Russia. Son of Alexis Semen and Mary Fedor (Radchenko) Postnikov.
Postnikov, Fedor Alexis was born on February 29, 1872 in Kovno, Russia. Son of Alexis Semen and Mary Fedor (Radchenko) Postnikov.
Graduate 1st Imperial Military School (Petrograd), 1891, with rank Second lieutenant of Ussuri Cossack Army. Officers’ Aeronautical School, Saint St. Petersburg, 1897. Graduate as military engineer, Saint St. Petersburg, 1899.
Captain, military engineer, 1901.
Lieutenant colonel Russian Admiralty (Navy Department), 1905. Master of Science in Civil Engineer, University of California, 1907.
St. Petersburg, August 9, 1895. Cossacks scout commander, 1892-1894. Senior engineer Yards and Docks Department, under Russian Government, 1899-1906.
Officer-aeronaut in Russian Army, 1898.
As head Navy Aeronautical Detachment took part in defense of Vladivostok, and in raids with cruisers during Russo-Japanese War, in capacity as organizer and commander Navy Aeronautical Detachment, 1904-1905. Commissioned First lieutenant Aviation Section Signal Corps, United States of America, March 27, 1917.
Captain junior military aviator, July 24, 1917, at Fort Omaha, Nebraska. Assistant aero engineer, experimental work and designing dirigibles, with Good year Company, Akron, O., January-May 1918.
Designing engineer, with dock and terminal section Construction corpus, United States army, Washington, District of Columbia, until June 1919.
Has designed and built numerous buildings, dams, harbors, et cetera International balloon pilot certificate Northern 77.
Member Russian Technology Society (life), Aeronautical.
Married Mary Nicolas Smirnov, of Saint