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[[File:Pyotr Shilovsky.png|160px|thumb|right|Pyotr Shilovsky]]

'''Pyotr Petrovich Shilovsky''' ({{lang-ru|Пётр Петрович Шиловский}}) (1871 – afterJune 19243, 1957 in [[Herefordshire]]) was a Russian count, jurist, statesman, and governor of [[Kostroma]] in 1910-1912 and of [[Olonets Governorate]] in 1912-1913. He is best known as the inventor of the [[gyrocar]], which he demonstrated for the first time in [[London]] in 1914. AfterIn the [[October Revolution]]1922 Shilovsky emigrated to the [[United Kingdom]].

[[File:The Russian two-wheel car in London. 1914.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Shilovsky's [[gyrocar]] in 1914, [[London]]]]

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[[Category:Russian inventors]]

[[Category:1871 births]]

[[Category:19241957 deaths]]