FROLOV

RUSSIA (see also List of Individuals)

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27.1.1775 Zmeinogorsk/RU - 22.12.1839 Saint Petersburg/RU

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Petr Kozmich Frolov was born into a family of miners in Western Siberia close to the Kazakhstan border. He was educated in Saint Petersburg and returned around 1800 to his hometown, where his father Kozma Dmitrievich passed away shortly later. Frolov moved in 1811 to the capital to join the mineral department, and was appointed in 1817 director of the Kolyvan-Voskresensk factory, and from 1822 to 1830 stayed in Tomsk as governor and finally was a senate member of the Russian Empire.

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Around 1800 when staying in Nerchinskie, Frolov proposed the deep drills for mining purposes, along with access canals for water used in the mining and special boats for transport of the metals. In 1806, Frolov designed a unique means of water-borne transportation for precious metals in the Altaj Mountains in today's Kazakhstan. He even imagined a system of railway-like transport from the mining area to the river harbor. In 1812, he proposed a project for salt transportation with a horse-driven railway some 150 long, from Elton Lake to the Volga River. After return to the Altaj Mountains, he added perfections to the hydraulic installations and in the iron production. He also looked for alternative methods of combustion to wood, and proposed certain minerals. At the end of his career, Frolov was also a Lecturer at Barnaul Technical School, where he fascinated students with a number of revolutionary inventions in applied technology. He there in addition founded an ethnographic museum with precious collections of technical, scientific, archeologic and ethnographic exhibits.

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