Alexander Sergeevich Raevsky ( January 23 ( February 4 ) 1872 , Kharkov - June 23, 1924 , Moscow ) - Russian engineer , scientist, designer of steam locomotives [1] . The son of the artist and teacher Maria Dmitrievna Raevskaya-Ivanova , the first woman in the Russian Empire to whom the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts awarded the title of artist ( 1868 ).
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| Date of Birth | January 23 ( February 4 ) 1872 |
| Place of Birth | Kharkov , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | June 23, 1924 (52 years old) |
| Place of death | Moscow , RSFSR , USSR |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | steam engine designer |
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| Mother | Maria Dmitrievna Raevskaya-Ivanova |
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Biography
In 1895, Raevsky graduated from the Technological Institute in Kharkov . After graduation, he worked in the technical department of the traffic service of the Moscow-Kursk Railway . Since 1900, he worked as a designer at the Kharkov Locomotive Plant , and since 1910 he moved to the Putilov Plant in Petrograd as the head of the engine and technical office of the plant.
With the participation or under the guidance of A. S. Raevsky, the working projects of a number of serial steam locomotives were developed: Щ , Щ п , Ь ч , У у , Лп , М [2] . Together with the engineer J. M. Gakkel in 1921-1923. worked on the project of one of the world's first mainline diesel locomotives that had practical economic applications (not just theoretical or experimental) - the Shch el 1 diesel locomotive, for which he developed a body and chassis ( crew ) [1] [3] .
As a designer of steam locomotives, A.S. Raevsky always believed that their future development would inevitably be accompanied by a general complication of the design, in particular, due to the use of a multi-cylinder steam engine.
Since 1920, Alexander Sergeevich Raevsky (at the same time as his main job at the Putilov factory) was a professor and taught at the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute . He was the author of a number of graphoanalytical methods: calculating the balances of a steam engine of a steam locomotive, the method of calculating the head of the connecting rods , crank fingers, axles of wheelsets , etc. [1] ; He was a member of many scientific and technical councils and committees on steam locomotive construction.
He died tragically on June 23, 1924 during tests: during a strength check of the Likhoborsky railway bridge near the Khovrino station ( OkTZhD , Moscow ) he was hit by a test engine. On July 26, 1924, Putilov workers and delegations from the Polytechnic and other institutes led Alexander Sergeevich on their last journey. His body was delivered from Moscow by special train. Alexander Sergeevich Raevsky was buried at the Krasny Cemetery in Leningrad , near Putilovsky Plant, where he began his career in the city on the Neva [4] [5] .
Memory
In order to perpetuate the memory of a design engineer, a talented steam locomotive engineer, Professor Alexander Sergeevich Raevsky, on April 10, 1925, Segal Avenue (was formed and received the name in 1909 ; the old name appeared from the name of a large St. Petersburg landowner) near the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, in which taught by a scientist, was renamed Raevsky Avenue [6] [7] . It goes from Tikhoretsky Avenue to the house number 51 on Svetlanovsky Avenue , slightly not reaching Svetlanovsky Avenue itself [7] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Ch. ed. B. A. Vvedensky, 2nd ed. T. 35. Rental - Sinks. 1955.672 pp. Ill. and cards; 35 l ill. and cards.
- ↑ Raevsky Alexander Sergeevich in the Big Biographical Encyclopedia
- ↑ Sologubov V.N., Development of steam locomotive construction in the USSR, in the book: Essays on the development of railway science and technology. Collection of articles, M., 1953.
- ↑ Professor A.S. Raevsky. (Obituary), "Technique and Economics of Communications", 1924, v. 1, No. 7
- ↑ Kopytkovsky D. (and others). A. S. Raevsky. (Obituary), "Enterprise", 1924, No. 9
- ↑ Gorbachevich K.S. , Khablo E.P. Why are they so named? On the origin of the names of streets, squares, islands, rivers and bridges of St. Petersburg. - SPb. : Norint , 2002 .-- 353 p. - ISBN 5-7711-0019-6 .
- ↑ 1 2 Register of names of objects of the urban environment of St. Petersburg Archived on February 22, 2014.
Literature
- Rail transport: Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. N. S. Konarev . - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia , 1994. - S. 553. - ISBN 5-85270-115-7 .