Background
KAZANTSEV, Florentiy was born in 1877.
KAZANTSEV, Florentiy was born in 1877.
Designed brakes for passenger and freight trains. 1909 developed and tested double air brake for passenger trains at Chelkar Station on the Orenburg Railroad. From 1921 worked in Moscow.
1923 tested his double air brake on a passenger train on the October Railroad. The brake was subsequently installed in oil-fired trains on the Baku-Batumi line. 1925 designed single-acting rigid brake (type Associated Press).
1927 designed semi-rigid brake (type K). These types were used in Soviet freight trains until the introduction of I. K. Matrosov’s improved designs. 1930-1932 worked on the development of electr control systems for airbrakes.
1926 helped to design engrinc crane for Soviet freight trains at Moscow Brake Factory.