VLADIMIR FARMAKOVSKI - FIRST MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ACADEMIC AMONG SERBS

BIJELJINA, JUNE 4 /SRNA/ – Vladimir Farmakovski /1880–1954/, a Serbian engineer of Russian origin, professor at the University of Belgrade, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences, and the first mechanical engineer to become an academic among Serbs, died on June 5, 1954.

Farmakovski completed secondary school in Petrograd and graduated from the Technological Institute.

He served a two-year term in the Russian Navy in Sevastopol, first as a junior mechanical engineer and later with the rank of lieutenant.

He arrived in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1920 and became a part-time professor. In 1928, he was appointed full professor at the Faculty of Engineering in Belgrade, teaching locomotives and steam boilers.

He was the founder and, from 1947, director of the Mechanical Engineering Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences, first as a corresponding member and later as a full member.

Farmakovski published more than 50 scientific and professional papers, primarily in the field of locomotives.

Among his works are A Contribution to the Theory of Water Flow from Reaction Turbines, State Changes in the Cylinder of a Steam Engine During Cylinder Filling, Distribution of Heating Surface in a Locomotive Boiler Between the Furnace and Tubes and Ring-Type Steam Superheaters for Locomotive Boilers.