Yablochkov P.N., (1847-1894), electrical engineer

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YABLOCHKOV Pavel Nikolaevich (1847-1894), electrical engineer. In St. Petersburg, he left the Nikolaevskoe Engineering School in 1866 and Technical Galvanic School in 1869. He wrote his major works on electric lighting, electrical engineering, and chemical sources of electric currents. He invented an electric candle known as Yablochkov's candle in 1875 and was the first model of an arc lamp tested in St. Petersburg in 1879 for the illumination of Liteiny Bridge and Alexandrinsky Theatre Square (today, Ostrovskogo Square). He lived in St. Petersburg from 1878, established the Electric Lighting Company P. N. Yablochkov the Inventor and Co. and an electromechanical plant in 1879, which started manufacturing incandescent lamps in 1881. He moved to Saratov in 1893. The former Edisona Street was named after Yablochkov in 1952.

References: Капцов Н. А. Павел Николаевич Яблочков: Его жизнь и деятельность. М., 1957.

V. V. Cheparukhin. Yablochkov Pavel Nikolaevich
Ostrovsky Square/Saint Petersburg, city
Yablochkova St./Saint Petersburg, city
Капцов Н. А. Павел Николаевич Яблочков: Его жизнь и деятельность. М., 1957 Liteiny Bridge
Alexandrinsky Theatre