Efim Artamonov Biography

But the "Motherland" seems that we are facing a rare case in history when discussions are not needed. The fortress Efim Artamonov helped his father to the serf Micah Artamonov to build barges. In the year of his father, he was sent to the Chusovaya River, to the Staro-Utkinsky Pier. And the fourteen -year -old Efimka was determined on the Nizhny Tagil Demidov Iron Plant, where metal mounts were manufactured for barges.

Walking from Nizhny Tagil to the Staro -Utkin pier on the Chusova River was hard even for the brisk Efimka: eighty -five kilometers one way - you are not running. Here, in fact, is the disposition of what will happen next. And something incredible will happen. Efim was tired of running from Tagil to Chusovaya and from Chusova to Tagil.

He could not use the horse: horse -drawn carts and riding - not for the serf. And then he collected a metal structure of two wheels, an iron frame and a wooden bench with a short straight wheel in front at the Nizhny Tagil plant. Now, to the Staro-Utkin pier, one could travel on these iron wheels, starting from the ground with his feet. He used to move with the help of his feet, but now sitting!

However, this is not even the main thing. Efim Artamonov called his invention "Samo-Katom". He hardly knew that in Russian any self-activity means both independence and freedom at the same time. In the case of self-chat Efim Artamonov, it was independence from the horse and freedom in movement. Essentially the Samo-Cat was taken out of Efim Artamonov from slavery to free people.

In the literal sense of the word. The owner of the Nizhny Tagil plant Vsevolozhsky wrote out Artamonov a passport and ordered to go to Moscow, to the coronation of Emperor Alexander I. Efim went to the coronation on the pedal self-roll. He overcame the distance from the Verkhoturye to Moscow and on September 15, he arrived as if nothing had happened to Khodynka.

Efim rode with an average speed of twelve miles per hour, which was faster than the speed of the equestrian cart. But the main thing is that for twelve years he overtook the German Drans, who in Europe is considered the inventor of the bicycle, and the Englishman Macmillan, who is attributed to the primacy in the invention of pedals. Efim Artamonov on the coronation of Alexander I.

At Khodynka, Efim produced a splash. The emperor was completely delighted. He personally handed the free fortress Artamonov. And the emperor was not too lazy to pay five hundred rubles to the Nizhny Tagil plant for the liberation of the inventor. Since then, any self-activity in Russia meant freedom from slavery. This turned out to be the effect of self -chat - certainly not mythological.

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