![]() When civil war broke out he assisted his father on trains delivering troops and supplies and clearing snow. ![]() ![]() Following the 1917 revolutions, he studied electrical technology at the Voronezh Polytechnic Institute. He attended a local parish school and completed his primary education at a four-year city school and began work at age thirteen, with such jobs as office clerk at a local insurance company, smelter at a pipe factory, assistant machinist, warehouseman, and on the railroad. His father was a metal fitter (and amateur inventor) employed in the railroad workshops and his mother was the daughter of a watchmaker. He was born in the settlement of Yamskaia Sloboda on the outskirts of Voronezh in the Chernozem region of central Russia. ![]()
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