Fyodor pirotsky biography
A Russian engineer of Ukrainian ancestry, inventor of the world's first railway electrification system and electric tram..
Fyodor Apollonovich Pirotsky, or Fedir Apollonovych Pirotskyy was a Russian engineer of Ukrainian ancestry, inventor of the world's first railway electrification system and electric tram While the.
Urban electric transport in Russia
The production of urban electric transport is a branch of Russianengineering. Russia has the largest number of trolley (85) and tram systems (86) in the world.[1]
Aerial cableway
In 2012, the cableway connecting Nizhny Novgorod and Bor was launched.[2] The length of the cableway is 3.5 km (2.2 miles).
It has the largest unsupported span in Europe above the water surface is 861 metres (2,825 feet). The main purpose is to provide an alternative type of passenger transportation in addition to river taxis, electric trains and buses.
History of trams
In 1860 the first urban horse railway line (a predecessor of trams), known as konka—from the Russian kon, "horse"—opened in Saint Petersburg.[3] In 1875, the world's first electric tram line operated in Sestroretsk near Saint Petersburg, Russia, invented and tested by Fyodor Pirotsky.[4][5] The first electric tram line in the R
