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Ladislav Kýr was born on May 1, 1941 in Plumlov to the family of František Kýr, a teacher at the municipal school in Plumlov, and his wife Marie. He grew up with his brother and sister. After the war, his relatives from Krumsín in Haná were hit hard by the collectivization of agriculture. After graduating from the municipal school in Plumlov and a grammar school in Prostějov, Ladislav studied electrical engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague and completed a one-month internship in Poland. He then joined the Škoda Works in Pilsen, where he worked in the electrical equipment development department and was the head of the laboratory there. He organized trips to Hungary and Poland in the company. In Pilsen, he witnessed the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968, and on the Pilsen radio, he delivered a call in Polish to Polish soldiers not to allow themselves to be used to suppress the freedom of others. The political checks of employees at the beginning of the normalization period did not affect him negatively, although he expressed himself relatively freely. In 1992, he moved to Prague with his family and was later sent to the USA, where he participated in the introduction of new types of trolleybuses in the cities of Dighton and San Francisco. He spent six years in the USA. After his return, he worked at the Prague company INECON until 2021. He raised two daughters with his wife Marcela Kýrová. In 2023 he lived in Prague.
