Felix N. Shklyarsky (1883-1955)

Abstract

December 27, 1955 died a major Soviet scientist, head of the Department of Mining Electrical Engineering of the Leningrad Mining Institute, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Felix N. Shklyarsky. Shklyarsky was born in 1883. He graduated from two higher educational institutions: the St. Petersburg Mining Institute in 1911 and the St. Petersburg Electrical Engineering Institute in 1917. Then for a number of years he worked as an engineer in Donbass, holding the positions of mining supervisor, ventilation superintendent and mine superintendent.