Pyotr Kozmich Frolov (russian: Пётр Козьми́ч Фроло́в; – ) was a Russian
mining engineer
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and
inventor
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who built the first horse-
railway
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in the
Russian Empire
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in 1809. He elaborated on various
canal
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projects and other artificial water constructions. Frolov also contributed to the development of scientific research and to the culture of the
Altay region. His activities as a head of the Kolyvano-Voskresensk factories promoted a great advance of Russian technology in the beginning of the 20th century.
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1775 births
1839 deaths
Inventors from the Russian Empire
People from Tomsk Governorate
Russian mining engineers
Saint Petersburg Mining University alumni
Senators of the Russian Empire