March 12] 1898), or Fedir Apollonovych Pirotskyy (Ukrainian: Федір Аполлонович Піроцький) was a Russian engineer of Ukrainian ancestry, inventor of the world's first railway electrification system and electric tram[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] While the commercialization of his inventions in the Russian Empire was relatively slow, Pirotsky is known to have met with Carl Heinrich von Siemens and influenced Siemens' eventual introduction of the first regular electric tram line (for the Berlin Straßenbahn).

In 1871, Pirotsky moved back to Saint Petersburg, where among other things he proposed a new type of blast furnace.

August 22] 1880 the unusual form of public transport started to serve residents of Saint Petersburg amid the vocal protests of the owners of the horsecars.

He also was the author of a project for centralizing the city's electricity production using underground cables, he proposed new constructions of blast furnaces and bakery ovens.

In 1888, he retired with the rank of colonel, lived on his military pension in the town of Alyoshki (today Oleshky, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine)[12] where he died in 1898.