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'... an outstanding achievement, the story of a remarkable man’s life that also sheds light on important themes in twentieth-century Russian and world history. Engineer also may serve as an unsurpassed exemplar of meticulous research... an outstanding contribution to a number of fields, starting with Russian/Soviet history.' Revolutionary Russia '... [Heywood's] interpretations provide a rich and rather sympathetic portrait of this gifted engineer. Along the way, [he] offers some of the finest history of the Russian and Soviet railways available anywhere, supplemented by a very useful technical glossary.' Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University, in the Russian Review ’This is a thoroughly researched book which has much of interest to both historians of Russia and of railways, each of whom will find it a comfortable and enlightening read throughout. The publisher is to be commended on the design and production standards: the book is pleasant to handle, the well-chosen pictures are carefully reproduced, there are footnotes rather than endnotes, and sub-editorial slips are rare and minor.’ Slavonic and East European Review 'Anthony Heywood has written a model of a biography, admirably showing his decades of study of the well-documented life of Yuri Vladimirovich Lomonosov... the reader leaves with a strong sense of context as well as the person.' Technology and Culture '... Heywood has written a commendable work on an important, if largely too-long neglected, figure in the history of the development of the Russian railway system in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, Iurii V. Lomonosov. He has managed to achieve this not only thanks to very careful and meticulous archival research in Britain, Europe and the USA, but also in being an objective and dispassionate reader of the voluminous diaries/correspondence left by Lomonosov, charting the many twists and turns in his professional as well as his personal life... Given the comprehensiveness of the

'... an outstanding achievement, the story of a remarkable man's life that also sheds light on important themes in twentieth-century Russian and world history. Engineer also may serve as an unsurpassed exemplar of meticulous research... an outstanding contribution to a number of fields, starting with Russian/Soviet history.' Revolutionary Russia '... [Heywood's] interpretations provide a rich and rather sympathetic portrait of this gifted engineer. Along the way, [he] offers some of the finest history of the Russian and Soviet railways available anywhere, supplemented by a very useful technical glossary.' Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University, in the Russian Review 'This is a thoroughly researched book which has much of interest to both historians of Russia and of railways, each of whom will find it a comfortable and enlightening read throughout. The publisher is to be commended on the design and production standards: the book is pleasant to handle, the well-chosen pictures are carefully reproduced, there are footnotes rather than endnotes, and sub-editorial slips are rare and minor.' Slavonic and East European Review 'Anthony Heywood has written a model of a biography, admirably showing his decades of study of the well-documented life of Yuri Vladimirovich Lomonosov... the reader leaves with a strong sense of context as well as the person.' Technology and Culture '... Heywood has written a commendable work on an important, if largely too-long neglected, figure in the history of the development of the Russian railway system in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, Iurii V. Lomonosov. He has managed to achieve this not only thanks to very careful and meticulous archival research in Britain, Europe and the USA, but also in being an objective and dispassionate reader of the voluminous diaries/correspondence left by Lomonosov, charting the many twists and turns in his professional as well as his personal life... Given the comprehensiveness of the work, its well-organized structure and the quality of the writing, this book can comfortably be adjudged not only to be the definitive work on its subject currently available, but also likely to remain so for many years to come.' British Journal for the History of Science '... a highly-researched, compelling and well-written biography... [Heywood's] book should fascinate not only readers interested in railways, but also those with a general interest in Russian history, particularly the first half of the twentieth century.' ICON 'Anthony Heywood's biography of Yurii Lomonosov emerges from the author's earlier work on the modernisation of Russia, and displays the same magisterial perspective on bureaucratic structure, circulation of technological influence and personalities in the economic history of twentieth century Russia... the chapters on Lomonosov and locomotive road testing during World War I and the early Soviet period are the most cohesive and significant in the book, and should be read by anyone interested in the interplay of high politics, personalities, and trade and technology policy in modern Russia.' Europe-Asia Studies

'... an outstanding achievement, the story of a remarkable man's life that also sheds light on important themes in twentieth-century Russian and world history. Engineer also may serve as an unsurpassed exemplar of meticulous research... an outstanding contribution to a number of fields, starting with Russian/Soviet history.' Revolutionary Russia '... [Heywood's] interpretations provide a rich and rather sympathetic portrait of this gifted engineer. Along the way, [he] offers some of the finest history of the Russian and Soviet railways available anywhere, supplemented by a very useful technical glossary.' Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University, in the Russian Review 'This is a thoroughly researched book which has much of interest to both historians of Russia and of railways, each of whom will find it a comfortable and enlightening read throughout. The publisher is to be commended on the design and production standards: the book is pleasant to handle, the well-chosen pictures are carefully reproduced, there are footnotes rather than endnotes, and sub-editorial slips are rare and minor.' Slavonic and East European Review 'Anthony Heywood has written a model of a biography, admirably showing his decades of study of the well-documented life of Yuri Vladimirovich Lomonosov... the reader leaves with a strong sense of context as well as the person.' Technology and Culture '... Heywood has written a commendable work on an important, if largely too-long neglected, figure in the history of the development of the Russian railway system in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, Iurii V. Lomonosov. He has managed to achieve this not only thanks to very careful and meticulous archival research in Britain, Europe and the USA, but also in being an objective and dispassionate reader of the voluminous diaries/correspondence left by Lomonosov, charting the many twists and turns in his professional as well as his personal life... Given the comprehensiveness of the

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Dr Anthony Heywood is Senior Lecturer at the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, King's College, University of Aberdeen, UK

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