Matvei Alkunovich Kapelyushnikov | |
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Матвей Алкунович Капелюшников | |
| Born | (1886-09-13)September 13, 1886 |
| Died | July 5, 1959(1959-07-05) (aged 72) |
| Occupation(s) | Engineer, inventor |
Matvei Alkunovich Kapelyushnikov (Russian:Матвей Алкунович Капелюшников; 13 September 1886 – 5 July 1959) was aSovietmechanical engineer and inventor.
Matvei Kapelyushnikov was born inAbastumani. He began his career in theoil industry as a technical designer at an oil company calledBaku Society of the Russian Oil in 1914. In 1915-1918, Matvei Kapelyushnikov was employed as adrilling rig designer and mechanical engineer at theBykhovsky Refinery and then at a factory belonging to theCaspian Partnership oil company. In 1920-1924, he worked in theAzneft refineries administration inBaku. In 1920-1924, Matvei Kapelyushnikov was employed as a deputy head of the Azneft Technical Bureau. In 1933-1936, he held the director's post at theAzerbaijan Research Institute named after Valerian Kuybyshev. In 1937-1959, Kapelyushnikov headed thepetroleum reservoir physics lab at theOil Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He had been a drilling department professor at theMoscow Oil Institute named after Ivan Gubkin since 1945.
Matvei Kapelyushnikov's scientific work was dedicated to the extracting and refining technologies of oil and gas due to the intensified development of the petroleum industry during the years of the establishment of Soviet authority and especially post-World War II years. Kapelyushnikov's most famous invention was the revolutionaryturbodrill[1] - a hydraulic bottom-hole drill for drillingwells. It was patented in theUnited Kingdom (11 March 1925) and then in theSoviet Union (31 August 1925).[1]
