Leonty Shamshurenkov
Introduction The Tsar Bell inside the Moscow Kremlin'''Leonty Luk'yanovich Shamshurenkov''' () (1687—1758) was a self-taught Russian inventor of peasant origin, who designed a device for lifting the Tsar Bell onto a bell-tower, constructed in 1752 the first self-propelling or ''self-running'' carriage (may be regarded as precursor to both quadrocycle and automobile) and proposed projects of an original odometer and self-propelling sledge.A later reconstruction of Shamshurenkov's "self-running" carriage
See also * List of Russian inventors
References *  Leonty Luk'yanovich Shamshurenkov *  Коляски Шамшуренкова и самокатка Кулибина / The carriages of Shamshurenkov and ''samokatka'' of Kulibin