page_title: Fyodor Pirotsky
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Fyodor Pirotsky / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Перегон «Пристань Миллера» - Сестрорецк в начале XX векаEnglish: Photo of Sestroretsk kurort in early 20th century
context_page_description: Fyodor Apollonovich Pirotsky was a Russian engineer of Ukrainian origin and inventor of the world's first railway electrification system and electric tram. While the commercialization of his inventions in Russia was relatively slow, Pirotsky is known to have met with Carl Heinrich von Siemens and influenced Siemens' eventual introduction of the first regular electric tram line.
context_section_description: Fyodor was born to the family of a military physician in Lokhvytsia Uezd of Poltava Gubernia (currently, Ukraine) of the Russian Empire. His family was of Ukrainian Cossacks ancestry.
  Fyodor received his education at Saint Petersburg, where he graduated from the Konstantin Cadet Corps (Konstantinovskiy Kadetskiy Korpus) and Mikhail Artillery School in 1866, and served in Kiev with the Fortress Artillery. There he became a friend of the famous Russian electrical engineer Pavel Yablochkov and an enthusiast for applications of electrical energy.
caption: Place on Miller's railway line in which the first tram Pirotsky was tested
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