The St.Petersburg Centre of Watch & Clock Restoration

Michael Vasiljevich Lomonosov
(1711 – 1765)

Lomonosov was a Russian genius, a scholar, the first learned man in Natural Science, a researcher who gained the world fame, who was the supporter of Russia’s Enlightenment and who was struggling for the development of Russian science by its own way in the world. A profoundly educated man with versatile interest and abilities he dedicated much time to constructing of optical and navigational devices and naval clocks.

In 1741 Lomonosov started his creative activity in the Academy of Science in St.Petersburg. His activity embraced all the branches of instrument making of his time. In order to carry out all his inventions he organized a workshop in his house on the bank of the Moika River. His associates were a tool maker F.N. Tirjutin who made astrolabes, a compass, a sun clock; A.I. Kolotoshin – a talented telescope-maker who made night-viewing telescopes.