Frolov hydraulic engineer biography

Glory to the first brought the “Mighty -Automatic Plant” - “incomparable example of human engineering”, as the descendants and contemporaries of K. Peter Kozmich Frolov, who called him called, was rightfully considered “a pioneer of rail transport”, built in Altai. In the eighteenth century, the main engine, both at metallurgical enterprises and in mining, was a water hydraulic wheel.

On their basis, complex hydraulic structures were created to raise ore and pumping water from mines, and setting up mechanical devices. An example of such structures is the grandiose-automatic factory K. Frolov, which acted from the giant hydraulic system. In the year, according to the project he developed, the water from the snake river, launched over an underground canal with a length of more than two kilometers, rotated the wheel high with a five -story house and driven many mechanisms.

Instead of people, the water did a hard work on the delivery of ore from the depths of the earth, its grinding, jerking, flushing, enrichment, sorting and transporting on rails in wagons to warehouses. A giant was placed underground - so that in winter, when the river is constrained by ice, the work of water does not stop. The Zmeinogorsk hydraulic system K. Frolova set in motion a sawmill, forge, ore -lifting vehicles of Voznesenskaya and two Catherine mines, drainage, oredrogenous and ore -industrial devices.

The mine wheels were truly huge: one, with a diameter of 15.6 m, worked at the Ascension Mine, in the underground chamber. Another, the Catherine’s wheel, had a diameter of 17 m and also worked in an underground chamber, both cameras were cut down in a rocky continuous. Frolov’s inventions helped the Altai mining economy to increase the annual silver extraction to more than the pounds, and gold - up to 21 pounds.

Hydrosylic installation of K. Frolov: 1. Dam; 2. Saw mill; 3. Channel; 4. The building of the ore lifting of the Catherine mine; 5. Kunststat of the Catherine mine; 6. Kunststat of the Catherine’s water lifting; 7. Catherine mine; 8. Narodnoye shed of the Ascension Mine; 9. Voznesenskaya mine; Kunststat of the Voznesensky ore-vodnik Kozma Dmitrievich Frolov was born on June 29 in Polevsky, in the family of the artisan.

He graduated from an arithmetic school at the factory, and on April 1 - the Gornozavodskaya, in Yekaterinburg. The eighteen -year -old young man with the rank of “mountain student”, that is, apprentices, was directed to work for Berezovsky gold crafts. In m, he participates as a clerk in the alloy of products of fishing along the Chusova rivers, a Kama in the caravan of Kolomenok to Nizhny Novgorod.

And in the next one is sent to the Gumeshevsky copper mine, where he participates in the development and extraction of ore up to a year. Then, for ten years in reconnaissance parties, he has been searching for lead ore along the shores of Chusova, he independently searches for deposits of various ore and non -metallic minerals along the Yaik Yales and Belaya rivers. From the students he is transferred to the artisan "Berghauers".

Returning from the expedition, Frolov is involved in the "structure and driving of converse spilling machines." Now he is assigned the mountain ranks of “Untersteiger”, and then the “Steiger”, which corresponded to the non-commissioned officer and the position of the master-seeker of the mine, or mining technique.

At the request of the Berg -College - the Main Directorate of the state -owned mountain plants of the country - he was sent to the Olonets province to establish work to flush gold, and a little later to Finland to search for lead ores. Returning to the Urals in the year, K. Frolov becomes the head of the Berezovsky golden crafts, and in the next he builds a car at the Uktussky factory, which was flushing gold is much more successful than the previous cars.

She allowed to reduce to two -thirds the number of workers and saved to 3, 4 thousand. He had other projects, but they did not have to implement them - he was appointed Bergmeister over all Yekaterinburg gold crafts. According to the Tabel about the ranks, the title of “Bergmeister” corresponded to the rank of major, that is, the VIII rank of class. Thus, Frolov, while still a mountain non-commissioned officer in rank and receiving a salary appropriate to this rank, has already performed the duties of a senior mining engineer.

In the year, Kozma Dmitrievich is building a gold traffic on the Berezovsky mine to reduce the labor costs and expenses for the transportation of gold -containing rocks to the Uktussian plant. At this time, the head of the Altai Kolivani-Voskresensky plants, Major General A., came to Yekaterinburg, he gets acquainted with the inventions of Steiger Frolov and with great difficulty, with the help of Empress Catherine the Second, seeks his translation for the introduction of gold remodels on Kolyvano-Voskresensky factories.

Here they immediately proceed "to the establishment and work in factories of decent flushing of ores." However, the Yekaterinburg “expedition” demanded Frolov back - it was in the Urals that he became famous for “necessary noble” inventions.And only the imperial decree of September 14 laid an end to a multi -month dispute, noting that Kolyvano - Voskresensky factories "should be pleased with skillful people, so that they were more prosperous from an hour." The eighteen -year period of K.

Frolov’s work in the Urals was of great importance for the entire further activity of the innovator. Carrying out the responsibilities of a mining student, mining, mining and mining engineer, he got acquainted with different types of labor and became convinced of how great “the extreme aggravation of mountain ministers” was great, and then always sought to facilitate their work by introducing new machines and mechanisms.

By the year, the Zmeinogorsky mine, which was managed by K. Frolov, was almost flooded. Silver smelting has decreased. At the Voskresenskaya mine, they first wanted to build horse water lifting, but Frolov decided to replace the work of horses with the work of an unprecedented in size of the machine - a decreasing engine. In early May, after the solemn prayer, the priest, along with the officers of the Mining Council, went down to the mine and sprinkled the meter wheel and other parts of the barbell with holy water.

The dams opened and the water sank into the plots of the wheel. It made one revolution, the second, third, and the elbows of connecting rods and levers swayed in the underground darkness, giving life to other water wheels. The new car demanded a cost of 16 times less than the equestrian water lifting. In the year, Frolov was even more grandiose project. It was as follows.

To ensure the shortest water path from the mine to the pond, an underground - a meter canal to waterproof wheels was broken. Further, the water rolled along the tape and fell on the wheel in the Preobrazhenskaya mine. The car came to life and the battens with an ore rose to the surface from a depth of more than meters. From this mine, water fell into the underground chamber of the Yekaterininskaya mine.

From the ore lifting, river water was in a hurry on the adit to the next wheel in order to pump out water from the deepest - Aleksandrovsky - Orta. The pumped water rose to the Gavrilov Ort and, overcoming the underground corridor, fell on the wheels of the Ascension Mine. The underground machine was controlled from the surface of the lever system with just one person.

After the introduction of this invention, Frolov was assigned the rank of berg - the Gautman VI class, which, according to the "tables of ranks" corresponded to the rank of colonel. Kozma Dmitrievich was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree and was appointed director of all Kolyvanovsky factories. In the spring of the year, Kozma Dmitrievich Frolov was gone.

The middle son, Pyotr Kozmich, installed his father at the Barnaul's Nagoric Cemetery in M ​​Granite Monument. But in the twentieth years of the twentieth century, dashing well done measured granite blocks according to the fields of Russian obscenity. He was never restored. As the local press wrote: "... there was no strength, nor courage, or honor in Altai." Such is the brief story of the life of the great son of Russia, a native of the Polevsky factory K., the Urals, the Urals should have enough courage and honor to return the memory of the merits of the great inventor-land of the 18th century.