Lodygin A.N., (1847-1923), electrical engineer and physicist

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LODYGIN Alexander Nikolaevich (1847-1923), electrical engineer. Graduated from Moscow Infantry School in 1867, was soon disappointed with military life, and moved to St. Petersburg. Here he audited classes at the University of St. Petersburg. In 1872, Lodygin invented a carbon filament lamp, which he demonstrated at the St. Petersburg Technological Institute in 1873. That same year, he conducted experiments in electrically lighting streets, commercial buildings and waterborne vessels at the Galley Harbour. The first street lamps with Lodygin's incandescent bulbs were lit at Odesskaya Street on September 11, 1873. Later, his filament lamps were used for lighting up a shop at Bolshaya Morskaya Street, and for underwater work during the building of the Liteiny Bridge. In 1874, the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences awarded Lodygin the Lomonosov Prize for his invention. That same year, Lodygin established the A.N. Lodygin Electrical Lighting Company in St. Petersburg. He emigrated from Russia in the early 1880s. In 1952, his name was given to a lane (formerly Tarakanovsky Lane, running between Rizhsky Avenue and Kurlyandskaya Street).

References: Жукова Л. Н. Лодыгин. 2-е изд., доп. М., 1989.

V. V. Cheparukhin. Lodygin Alexander Nikolaevich
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Lodygina Lane/Saint Petersburg, city
Odesskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Жукова Л. Н. Лодыгин. 2-е изд., доп. М., 1989 State University, St. Petersburg
State Institute of Technology, St. Petersburg
1873