Nikolai Grigorievich Yarmolchuk ( 1898 , Lyuban village, Rivne region , Ukraine - April 1979 , Moscow ) - railway transport design engineer , inventor and designer of the Sharopoezd .
| Nikolay Yarmolchuk | |
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| Nikolai Grigorievich Yarmolchuk | |
| Date of Birth | 1898 |
| Place of Birth | Lyuban village, Russian Empire (now: Rivne region , Ukraine ) |
| Date of death | 1979 |
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR |
| Citizenship |  Russian Empire →  the USSR |
| Occupation | design engineer |
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Biography
Nikolai Yarmolchuk was born in 1898 in the village of Lyuban, Rivne region. Of Ukraine [1] . He worked as a fitter at the Kursk Railway in Moscow. Member of the AUCP , member of the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion of 1921 [2] .
He studied at the Moscow Higher Technical School and the Moscow Power Engineering Institute , the first in the world to invent a high-speed electric train of the original design (Sharopoezd), speeds of up to 300 km / h [3] , as well as a tray way for high-speed trains (later began to be used for hovertrains); rubber coating of train wheels (used in subway trains); streamlined shape of cars and electric locomotive, similar to the modern; aerodynamic brakes, subsequently found use in aircraft [4] .
Veteran of the Great Patriotic War , participant of the Battle of Kursk (1943). He fought in the 4th Ukrainian Front , military rank engineer-captain .
He died in April 1979 after a long illness at the age of 80 years.
Social activities
In the 1950s, he led a circle of young designers in the Bauman House of Moscow pioneers, who developed a universal model of a ball train for driving on roads with any surface. The work was presented at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow [5] .
Family
Brother Sergey G. Yarmolchuk. Niece Sofya Sergeevna Yarmolchuk [6] .
Awards
Order of the Red Star (1945) [7] .
Memory
The exposition is devoted to the project of the Sharpoe-train in the museum of the TsMZHT MPS , in St. Petersburg .
Bibliography
- NG Yarmolchuk. Articles and reports (1929-1962): "On the issue of creating and implementing the ideas of sharatransport in the USSR", "Basic technical installations for the implementation of super-speed traffic on the spherical transport system", "The principle of single-line motion and its implementation in high-speed transport equipment of a ball train" "Sharopoezd and its use in agricultural production." [eight]
- The base of patents of the USSR. Yarmolchuk NG Transport system. Application 51116, 07/13/1929. Patent Number: 36929 Published: 01/31/1935
Notes
- ↑ Immortal regiment
- ↑ Science and technology (inaccessible link) . Circulation date October 1, 2015. Archived October 2, 2015.
- ↑ Tests of the reduced model of the Yarmolchuk ball train with passengers, 1934
- ↑ Sharopoezd (Inaccessible link) . Circulation date October 1, 2015. Archived October 2, 2015.
- ↑ Journal " Young Technician ", 1957, No. 5, pp.24-27
- ↑ Journal " Technology Youth ", May 2009, p. 54-56
- ↑ Order No. 170 dated 06.06.45
- Russian State Archives of Economics: Travel Guide: Issue 3: Personal Origin Funds. - M .: Galeria, 2001. - 312 p., With il. ISBN 5-8137-0059-5