Semyon Vasilyevich Panpushko ( 1856 - November 28, 1891 ) - a Russian artillery chemist, a teacher at the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy and the School, died while equipping a 6-inch projectile with melinite .
| Semyon Vasilyevich Panpushko | |
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| Date of Birth | 1856 |
| Place of Birth | Tsarskoye Selo |
| Date of death | November 28, 1891 |
| Affiliation |  Russian empire |
| Type of army | artillery |
| Rank | staff captain |
Biography
Born in Tsarskoe Selo.
He studied at the Nizhny Novgorod military school , and in 1872, as the best student, was transferred to the Mikhailovsky Artillery School . At the end of the final exams (1875) for disciplinary offense [1] was transferred by fireworkers to the 35th artillery brigade and arrested.
In September 1875, promoted to officer and transferred to service in the Kronstadt fortress artillery.
In 1877 he entered the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy and in 1880 graduated from it with the name entered on a marble board. He spent the academic semester in Wiesbaden with Professor Fresenius and returned to Russia with a brilliant certificate.
Entered the St. Petersburg Gun Plant , then transferred to Arsenal and in 1882 was invited to a chemistry tutor in an artillery school. From autumn 1887 to the end of 1888, in a foreign business trip he studied the production of explosives in France, Italy, Belgium, England and Germany. Upon his return, he wrote and published (1890) a solid work "Factory preparation of pyroxylin and nitroglycerin ." The work was awarded the Mikhailovsky Prize and was accepted as a dissertation for the title of full-time teacher at the Artillery Academy.
November 28, 1891, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, an explosion occurred at the main artillery range, when equipping five 6 inch bombs with melinite. Together with Panpushko killed: scorer Vasily Egorov, gunner Osip Vinogradov and gunner Peter Shavrov. He was buried in Tsarskoye Selo at the Kazan Cemetery [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Who did not commit, but did not want to make excuses. - Military Encyclopedia, ed. I. V. Sytina, St. Petersburg, 1911–1915, Vol.17, pp.285-286
- ↑ The inscription: “Kill the rupture of a blasting bomb equipped with melinitom at the moment of unscrewing the withdrawn sleeve. A part of the slab that served for the last experiments of the deceased supremely acting percussion pipes of his image. ” - Saitov V.I. “ Petersburg Necropolis ”, St. Petersburg., 1912-1913, Vol. III, p.358
Links
- Panpushko, Semyon Vasilievich // Nitroglycerin - Patrol. - SPb. ; [ M. ]: Type. t-va I. D. Sytin , 1914. - p. 285–286. - ( Military Encyclopedia : [in 18 t.] / Ed. By K. I. Velichko [and others ]; 1911-1915, vol. 17).
- Nobel.ru.com scientific portal (inaccessible link)
- "Scout" . - No. 83. - January 14, 1892
- Hell potion: what the enemy wants // Popular Mechanics . - August 2006.