Background
Robert Eduardovich Klasson was born on February 12, 1868 in Kiev. Son of a physician.
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Robert Eduardovich KLASSON
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After graduating from the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology in 1891, he trained in Germany, where he took part (under the leadership of M.O.Dolivo-Dobrovolsky) in the installation and commissioning of the first three-phase power transmission line from the Laufen hydroelectric power station to Frankfurt am Main for the supply of electricity to the International Electrotechnical exhibitions (1891).
Career
In 1895–1896, together with V. N. Chikolev, he supervised the construction of the first industrial hydroelectric power station in the European part of Russia for the transmission of three-phase current to the Okhta powder plant (the Okhta river near St. Petersburg). Large city power plants were built under the leadership of Klasson and according to his projects in Moscow (1897) and St. Petersburg (1898). In 1900-1906 Klasson actively participated in the electrification of the Baku oil fields; due to the refusal to apply reprisals to the striking workers, he was forced to leave the post of director of JSC Electrosila. In 1906-1926 he was the director of the Moscow state power plant No. 1 (MGES-1). On the initiative of Klasson and under his leadership, in 1912-1914 near the city of Bogorodsk, the world's first power plant "Elektropransmission" (GRES-3 named after R. E. Klasson in the town of Elektrogorsk) with a capacity of 15 MW was built; the main fuel is local peat. The joint work of "Elektropransmission" and MHES-1 made it possible to create a single power system with a range of 100 km. In 1914, Klasson proposed a hydraulic method for extracting peat, which was practically implemented in the early 1920s. Participated in drawing up the GOELRO plan.
Religion
Religious books are outdated, because laws by nature have to change with the advance of societies and technology.
Views
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Membership
In St. Petersburg he was a member of the first Marxist circles; later retired from political activities.
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Nationality
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics