- Peter Petrovich Troyanskii
Petr Petrovich Troyanskii (January,
1894 —24 May ,1950 ) was born in January 1894 in the family of a railway repair-shop worker in Orenburg in the Southern Urals. The family had 14 children and the living was hard. He finished a parish school inOrenburg and passed gymnasia examinations without attending classes, after which he entered theUniversity of St. Petersburg . He made his living by giving lessons. World War I prevented him from finishing university. After the GreatOctober Revolution of 1917, he entered the Institute ofRed Professors . Afterwards he taught social sciences and the history of science and technology at higher educational establishments. He also participated in compiling the Technical Encyclopedia and theGreat Soviet Encyclopedia . In those years he devoted more and more time to putting into practice his idea of a translating machine.Stenocardia prevented him from completing the work on mechanising translation, which he considered the cause of his whole life.References
* Bel’skaya, I. K. [И. К. Бельская] , L. N. Korolev [Л. Н. Королев] and D. Yu. Panov [Д.Ю. Панов] (eds): 1959, "Перeводная машина П. П. Троянского: сборник материалов о переводной машине для перевода с одного языка на другие, предложенной П. П. Троянским в 1933 г. [The translating machine of P. P. Troyanskii: collection of materials on a translating machine for the translation from one language into others, proposed by P. P. Troyanskii in 1933] ". Изд. Акад. Наук СССР, Москва.
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