Gakkel Y.M., (1874-1945), Engineer Designer

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GAKKEL Yakov Modestovich (1874-1945) was a designer. He was an honored worker of science and technology of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1940). Gakkel graduated from the Electrotechnical Institute in 1897, and in 1906-31 served on faculty of the Institute, becoming a professor in 1921. He also worked at Leningrad Regional Institute of Thermal Technology and at Leningrad Institute of Engineers of Railroad Transportation (9 Moskovsky Avenue; commemorative plaque). He is one of the creators of the first Russian Aeronautic Partnership. He developed a number of models of Russian airplanes, including the first in Russia amphibian hydroplane (1911). He was in charge of the diesel bureau of the Institute of Thermal Technology, and created the first in the USSR diesel locomotive engine (1922). Gakkel designed the first steam tractor (1934; the same steam engine was used in river cutters). In the 1930s, he lived at 34 Fontanka River Embankment. He was buried on Literatorskie Mostki Cemetery. A new street in Primorsky District was named Gakkelevskaya Street in 1988 in his honour.

References: Бычков В. Н. Самолеты Я. М. Гаккеля // Авиация в России. М., 1988. С. 244-250.

V. V. Cheparukhin. Gakkel Yakov Modestovich
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 34
Moskovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 9
Бычков В. Н. Самолеты Я. М. Гаккеля // Авиация в России. М., 1988 State Electrotechnical University "LETI", St. Petersburg
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis