Saint Petersburg
Санкт-Петербург, St. Petersburg, is known as a cultural capitol of Russia and hub for its intelligentsia.
Many early aero Russian publications, including Vestnik Vozdukhoplavaniya, Vozdukhoplavatel (1903-1916), and Aero i automobilnaya zhizn, were published in St. Petersburg.
- Air corps aerodrome inside the city: [1]
Variations on the name
The abbreviation used in Brockett (and elsewhere) for St. Petersburg is Спб., transliterated as Spb.
We occasionally see the French translation, St. Pétersbourg.
In 1914 the name was changed to Петроградъ/Petrograd, then in 1924 to Ленинград/Leningrad.
Names | St. Petersburg; Saint Petersburg; Petersburg; Petrograd |
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Designation | city |
Inside | RU |
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Wikidata id | Q656 |
These events were held in St. Petersburg (or Saint Petersburg or Petersburg):
- 1899 International Meteorological Committee meeting (Start date: 1899-09-02, Locations: St. Petersburg, Country: RU, Tech focus: Meteorology)
- Saint Petersburg Conference on the Exploration of the Atmosphere (Start date: 1904-08-29, Locations: Saint Petersburg, Country: RU, Tech focus: Meteo • LTA • Kite • Instrument • Military)
- St. Petersburg exhibition (Start date: 1910, Locations: St. Petersburg, Country: RU)
- St. Petersburg Aviation Week (Start date: 1910-05-08, Locations: St. Petersburg, Country: RU)
- All-Russian Aeronautics Festival (Start date: 1910-09-21, Locations: St. Petersburg, Country: RU)
These people are connected with St. Petersburg or Saint Petersburg or Petersburg:
- Anempodist Vertogradsky
- Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (Occupations: Nobility • Physicist, Tech areas: Physics, Affiliations: Central Physical Observatory • St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences • Royal Society)
- Georges de Bothezat (Occupations: Engineer • Professor, Tech areas: LTA • Airplane • Marine • Hydroplane • Stability • Gyroscope • Propellers • Aerodynamics • Design • Automatic stability, Affiliations: St. Petersburg Aeronautical Laboratory • DEKA)
- Chessborough Mackenzie-Kennedy
- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Rykatcheff (Occupations: Military officer • Meteorologist, Tech areas: Meteorology, Affiliations: International Commission for Scientific Aeronautics • Central Physical Observatory)
- Wilhelm Kress (Occupations: Engineer, Tech areas: Airplane • Marine)
- Boris Nikitich Vorobiev (Occupations: Publisher • Engineer • Teacher, Tech areas: Airplane, Affiliations: Russian Academy of Sciences • First Russian Airplane Company Shchetinin & Co. • Imperial All-Russian Aero Club • Duflon, Konstantinovich & Co. • Vestnik Vozdukhoplavaniya • Technika Vozdukhoplavaniya • Motor (Russia))
- David Schwarz (Tech areas: LTA • Rigid • Frame • Aluminum • Wood)
- Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (Occupations: Aircraft designer • Founder • Professor, Tech areas: Helicopter • Airplane, Affiliations: Russo-Baltic Wagon Works • Sikorsky Manufacturing Company)
- Joachim Adolfowicz Sumovski
- Leonid Alexandrovich Rosenzweig (Occupations: Engineer-technologist, Tech areas: Patents)
- Yuri Nikolayevich German (Occupations: Military officer • Publisher, Affiliations: Vozdukhoplavatel (1903-1916) • Aeronautical Training Park (Russia))
- Nikolay Teleshov (Occupations: Captain • Artillery captain, Tech areas: Fixed wing)
- Alexander Matveevich Kowanko (Occupations: Military officer • Engineer, Tech areas: LTA • Marine • Meteorology • Photography • Military, Affiliations: Russian balloon corps • International Commission for Scientific Aeronautics • Central Physical Observatory)
- Afanasy Ivanovich Shabsky (Occupations: Military officer, Tech areas: Dirigible, Affiliations: Aeronautical Training Park (Russia) • All-Russian Aero Club)
These companies operated in St. Petersburg or Saint Petersburg or Petersburg:
- Central Physical Observatory (Key people: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Rykatcheff • Boris Borisovich Golitsyn)
- Duflon, Konstantinovich & Co. (Started aero: 1910, Key people: Georges de Bothezat • Boris Nikitich Vorobiev • Louis-Édouard-Antoine Duflon • Pyotr Pavlovich Azbelev, Affiliations: Sotter, Harlez & Co.)
- First Russian Aeronautics Company Shchetinin & Co. (Started aero: 1909, Key people: Sergei Sergeyevitch Shchetinin • Yakov Modestovitch Gakkel • Boris Nikitich Vorobiev • M. A. Shcherbatov • Shcherbakov • Michkail Mikhailovich Shishmaryev • Shishmarve • Dimitry Pavlovich Grigorovich)
- Peterburgskii Tovarishchyestva Aviatsit (Started aero: 1910, Key people: V. A. Lebedyev)
- Russo-Baltic Wagon Works (Key people: M. V. Shidlowskiy • Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky)
- Stock Company of Aeronautics V. A. Lebedev (Started aero: 1914, Key people: Vladimir Aleksandrovich Lebedev • L. M. Shkoulnik • L. D. Kolpakov-Miroshnichenko • S. B. Gourevich • V. I. Yarkovsky)
- Treugolnik
These organizations operated in St. Petersburg or Saint Petersburg or Petersburg:
- All-Russian Aero Club
- Imperial All-Russia Aero-Club, St. Petersburg Branch (Affiliated with: IVAK)
- Imperial All-Russian Aero Club (Started aero: 1908, Key people: Ivan Vasilievich Stenbock-Fermor • Vasily Vasilievich Korn • Yakov Nikolayevich Rostovtsev, Affiliated with: FAI)
- Officers' Training School (Started aero: 1910, Key people: Alexander Matveevich Kowanko • Afanasy Ivanovich Shabsky, Affiliated with: Russian War Ministry, Keywords: School • Training • Gatchina)
- Russian Aeronautical Society (Started aero: 1880)
- Russian Technical Society (Affiliated with: Russian Technical Society, Aeronautical Division, Keywords: Patents)
- Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (Affiliated with: Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Keywords: Association)
- St. Petersburg Institute of Railway Engineers, Aviation Circle of (Started aero: 1909)
Patents whose inventor or applicant filed from location St. Petersburg or Saint Petersburg or Petersburg
- Patent CA-1880-13781 (Inventors: Comte Antoine Apraxine, English title: Improvements in Aerial Balloons, Tech fields: LTA • Balloon • Aerostat, Filing date: 1880-05-25)
- Patent FR-1906-364164 (Inventors: Vassily Rebikov, English title: Aviation system, Tech fields: Propulsion • Propellers • Speed, Supplementary to patent: Patent RU-1905-Rebikov, Filing date: 1906-03-12)
- Patent DE-1909-228654 (Inventors: Christopher Antoonovich, English title: Apparatus for climbing and reaching into the air by the recoil of exploding gas mixtures, Filing date: 1909-02-21)
- Patent CH-1913-64628 (Inventors: Sergei Tscherwinsky, English title: Airplane with apparatus of automatic stability, Tech fields: Airplane • Stability • Construction • Design • Frame • Equilibrium • Automatic stability, Supplementary to patent: Patent AT-1913-66955, Filing date: 1913-05-17)
Publications referring to St. Petersburg or Saint Petersburg or Petersburg
- Publication 3701, 1783, Dissertation sur les ballons remplis de matières combustibles. St. Pétersbourg (Simple title: Dissertation on balloons filled with combustible materials. St. Petersburg)
- Orloff, 1891, A travers l'éspace de Saint-Pétersbourg au lac Ladoga (Simple title: Through St. Petersburg to Lake Ladoga, Journal: La France Aérienne)
- Moedebeck, 1904, Bericht über die 4 Konferenz der internationalen Kommission für wissenschaftliche Luftschiffahrt in St. Petersburg vom 29 August bis 3 September 1904 (Simple title: Report on the 4th Conference of the International Commission for Scientific Air Navigation in St. Petersburg from 29 August to 3 September 1904, Journal: Ill. Aër. Mitt.)
- Rykatschew, 1906, Sondages aériens par cerf-volants en 1902-1903 et à l'aide des ballons en 1901, 1902 et 1903 exécutés à Pavlovsk et à St. Pétersbourg. Introduction (Simple title: Kite aerial surveys in 1902-1903 and balloons in 1901, 1902 and 1903 in Pavlovsk and St. Petersburg. Introduction)
- Semenov, 1910, Latham's coming to Russia (Simple title: Latham's coming to Russia, Journal: Biblioteka Vozdukhoplavaniya)
- Semenov, 1910, Latham in St. Petersburg (Simple title: Latham in St. Petersburg, Journal: Biblioteka Vozdukhoplavaniya)
- Publication B2p0012e15, 1911, Aerial flight, St. Petersburg-Moscow (Simple title: Aerial flight, St. Petersburg-Moscow, Journal: Vestnik Vozdukhoplavaniya)
- Jannus, 1914, Benoist Airline operation at St. Petersburg (Simple title: Benoist Airline operation at St. Petersburg, Journal: Aero and Hydro)
- Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia (Simple title: Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia)
- Lebedev, 2014, First Airfields of Saint Petersburg (Simple title: First Airfields of Saint Petersburg, Journal: 29th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences)