Gagarin Andrew G.

Born in 1855, Mr.. He graduated from the course, Faculty of Mathematics University of St. Petersburg, then the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy. Zaveduya mechanical laboratory of the St. Petersburg arsenal, designed several machines and mechanical appliances that are relevant not only for a single artillery business. With the establishment in the arsenal of mechanical laboratory Prince Gagarin took up special work on the test materials. In this period the devices for its "auto-balancing efforts" (in cars Mori and Federgaffa), . have found application in the arsenals: St. Petersburg, . Bryansk and Kiev, the arms factories: Tula, . Sestroretsk and Izhevsk; at the St. Petersburg munitions plant,
. From 1895 to 1900. Gagarin was the assistant chief of the St. Petersburg gun factory, which was built for the reception of materials and determine the pressure of powder gases "press compression (kresherny). The Paris World Exhibition 1900. they made a new device - a circular line with a vernier and a table giving the arc radii and radii of the arcs of great circles ". In 1900, Mr.. He was appointed the first director of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute and was the head of its 1 March 1907. When the institute was applied the principle of election, he retained the post of Director, having been elected unanimously. When the police searched the hostel students of the institute discovered the explosives, Prince Gagarin was put on trial in 1909. awarded by the Senate to dismiss from office. In 1912, Mr.. they enjoy Thesis: "Devices that give the relationship between stress and strain during the strike" for a degree of associate St. the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute. In addition, Gagarin published a series of articles on mathematics and mechanics in the special editions.