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Oleksiy Alchevsky
Oleksiy Kyrylovych Alchevskyiy Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Олексій Кирилович Алчевський, Romanization of Ukrainian, romanized: ''Oleksii Kyrylovych Alchevskyi''; 1835, Sumy, Russian Empire – 1901, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian entrepreneur, philanthropist, and industrialist during the Russian empire. He was a pioneer in establishing the first finance group in Russian Empire, Russia and creator of several banks and industrial societies in Sloboda Ukraine. His role in the development of Russian industry was so important that in 1903 the city Alchevsk in Donbas (eastern Ukraine) was named in his honor. Biography Born in Sumy, Kharkov Governorate (Sloboda Ukraine) in a family of small grocery merchant held of Sloboda Ukraine cossacks, Alchevsky graduated the Sumy County School and in 1862 moved to Kharkiv. During his young age, he was interested in left populist ideas, poetry of Taras Shevchenko and belonged to Hromada (secret society), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumy
Sumy (, , ) is a city in northeastern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Sumy Oblast. The city is situated on the banks of the Psel (river), Psel River and has a population of making it the 23rd-largest in the country. The city of Sumy was founded in the 1650s by Cossacks within the historical region of Sloboda Ukraine. History Sumy was founded by the Cossack Herasym Kondratyev from Stavyshche, Bila Tserkva Regiment on the banks of the Psel River, a tributary of the Dnieper.Bazhan, O.H., Vortman, D.Ya., Masliychuk, V.L. Sumy, regional center (СУМИ, ОБЛАСНИЙ ЦЕНТР)'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. Whether it was founded in 1652 or 1655 remains a subject of discussion. In 1656–58 at the site of the Sumyn early settlement, under the leadership of the Muscovite voivode K. Arsenyev, a city fort was built, consisting of a fort and a Gord (archaeology), grad (town). In the 1670s, Sumy was expanded with the addition of a fortified ''posad'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Vernadsky
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (), also spelt Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky (; – 6 January 1945), was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (now National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). Vladimir Vernadsky is most noted for his 1926 book ''The Biosphere'' in which he inadvertently worked to popularize Eduard Suess's 1875 term biosphere, by hypothesizing that life is the geological force that shapes the earth. In 1943 he was awarded the USSR State Prize, Stalin Prize. Vernadsky's portrait is depicted on the Ukrainian ₴1,000 hryvnia banknote. Early life Vernadsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, on in the family of the native Kyiv residents Russian Imperial economist Ivan Vernadsky and Anna Konstantinovich, who came from an old Russia noble family. According to famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexei Beketov
Oleksiy Mykolaovych Beketov (; 3 March 1862, Kharkiv, Russian Empire — 23 November 1941, Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR) was a Ukrainian architect, , who made significant contributions to the architectural landscape of Kharkiv and beyond, primarily working in the Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassical, Renaissance Revival architecture, Neo-Renaissance, and Art Nouveau styles. He was an honorary Professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts from 1894. Biography Oleksiy Mykolaovych Beketov was born on Gregorian calendar, February 19 (Julian calendar, March 3), 1862, in the city of Kharkiv. The is probably of Turkic peoples, Turkic or Circassians, Circassian origin. Oleksiy Beketov was the son of famous Russian-Ukrainian chemist Nikolay Beketov, a noted Chemist, Professor of chemistry at the National University of Kharkiv, Imperial University of Kharkiv. His father came from a Russian noble family with roots from the Penza Governorate, Nikolay Beketo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bust (sculpture)
A bust is a Sculpture, sculpted or cast representation of the upper part of the human figure, human body, depicting a person, person's Human head, head and neck, and a variable portion of the chest and shoulders. The piece is normally supported by a plinth. The bust is generally a portrait intended to record the appearance of an individual, but may sometimes represent a type. They may be of any List of art media, medium used for sculpture, such as marble, bronze, terracotta, plaster, wax or wood. As a format that allows the most distinctive characteristics of an individual to be depicted with much less work, and therefore expense, and occupying far less space than a full-length statue, the bust has been since ancient times a popular style of life-size portrait sculpture. A sculpture that only includes the head, perhaps with the neck, is more strictly called a "head", but this distinction is not always observed. Display often involves an integral or separate display stand. The A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khrystyna Zhuravlyova
Khrystyna Danylivna Alchevska (née , Zhuravlyova; ) (1841–1920) was a Ukrainian teacher and a prominent activist for national education in Imperial Russia. She created a methodical training system which was implemented in many schools of Russian Empire. In 1862, she organized the first free girls' school in Ukraine. In 1889, she was elected vice-president of the International League of Education in Paris. Biography Khrystyna was born 16 April 1841 in Borzna, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine). She was born in the family of a district teacher of Russian literature Danila Zhuravlyov (1809–?) from a marriage with a noblewoman Annette Nikolaevna Vuich (1809–1857), who decided on a mésalliance of love. Her mother Annette was a daughter of Russian general Nikolay Vuich, she studied at the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens in St. Petersburg. Khrystyna married Aleksey Alchevsky, a Russian Imperial businessman, later owner of a large mine and steel plant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illich Steel And Iron Works
Illich Iron & Steel Works ( Ukrainian: Маріу́польський металургі́йний комбіна́т і́мені Ілліча́ – literally "Mariupol Metallurgical Plant named after Illich") is the second largest metallurgical enterprise in Ukraine, after Kryvorizhstal. It is located in Mariupol. According to NPR, the company had a workforce of 14,000 in early 2022. The works produce a wide assortment of hot-rolled and cold-rolled steel, including for shipbuilding, oil pipeline, boring gas pipeline and water pipes. The company is the sole enterprise of Ukraine that produces galvanized steel and tanks for liquid gases. The products of the company are certified by international classification societies: the Lloyd's Register (Great Britain, Germany), U.S. Bureau of Naval Personnel, the Marine register of navigation (Russia), the German certification center TTSU, etc. The company exports the products to more than 50 countries of the world. The enterprise has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariupol
Mariupol is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast (Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius, Kalmius River. Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was the tenth-largest city in the country and the second-largest city in Donetsk Oblast, with an estimated population of 425,681 people in January 2022; as of August 2023, Ukrainian authorities estimate the population of Mariupol at approximately 120,000. Mariupol has been occupied by Russian forces since May 2022. Historically, the city of Mariupol was a centre for trade and manufacturing, and played a key role in the development of higher education and many businesses and also served as a coastal resort on the Sea of Azov. In 1948, Mariupol was renamed Zhdanov () after Andrei Zhdanov, a native of the city who had become a high-ranking official of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and a close ally to Joseph Stalin. The name was part of a larger effort to rename cities a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encyclopedia Of Ukraine
The ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' (), published from 1984 to 2001, is a fundamental work of Ukrainian Studies. Development The work was created under the auspices of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Europe (Sarcelles, near Paris). As the ''Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies'' it conditionally consists of two parts, the first being a general part that consists of a three volume reference work divided in to subjects or themes. The second part is a 10 volume encyclopedia with entries arranged alphabetically. The editor-in-chief of Volumes I and II (published in 1984 and 1988 respectively) was Volodymyr Kubijovyč. The concluding three volumes, with Danylo Husar Struk as editor-in-chief, appeared in 1993. The encyclopedia set came with a 30-page ''Map & Gazetteer of Ukraine'' compiled by Kubijovyč and Arkadii Zhukovsky. It contained a detailed fold-out map (scale 1:2,000,000). A final volume, ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Index and Errata'', containing only the index and a list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alchevsk Metallurgical Complex
Alchevsk Metallurgical Complex () is one of the oldest ferrous metallurgy enterprises in eastern Ukraine. Its history dates back to the 1890s, and its founder is Oleksiy Kyrylovych Alchevsky. It was founded in 1895 as a metallurgical plant of the Donetsko-Yurievske Metallurgical Company. In 1961-1991 it was called the Kommunarsk Metallurgical Plant, because at that time the city of Alchevsk was called Kommunarsk. History From the beginning of the 1890s, on the initiative and financial participation of Oleksiy Alchevsky, two powerful metallurgical enterprises were formed: the Donetsko-Yurievske Metallurgical Company (now the Alchevsk Metallurgical Complex), designed and built by A. Mevius, and together with the Belgians the Russian Providence Company (now Mariupol Metallurgical Plant named after Ilyich). In 1895, the Metallurgical Plant of Donetsko-Yurievske Metallurgical Company was founded near the Yurievka station (now Kommunarsk) of the Luhansk-Debaltseve railway. The fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pood
''Pood'' ( rus, пуд, r=pud, p=put, plural: or ) is a unit of mass equal to 40 Funt (mass), ''funt'' (, Russian pound). Since 1899 it is set to approximately 16.38 kilograms (36.11 pound (mass), pounds). It was used in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. ''Pood'' was first mentioned in a number of 12th-century documents. Unlike ''Funt (mass), funt'', which came at least in the 14th century from , (formerly written * ) is a much older borrowing from Late Latin "pondo", from Classical "pondus". Use in the past and present Together with other units of weight of the Obsolete Russian weights and measures, Imperial Russian weight measurement system, the USSR officially abolished the ''pood'' in 1924. The term remained in widespread use until at least the 1940s. In his 1953 short story "Matryona's Place", Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn presents the ''pood'' as still in use amongst the Khrushchev-era Soviet peasants. Its usage is preserved in modern Russian in certain specific cases, e.g., in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yekaterinoslav Governorate
Yekaterinoslav Governorate} was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Yekaterinoslav. Covering an area of , and being composed of a inhabitant of 2,113,674 by the census of 1897, it bordered Poltava Governorate to the north, Don Host Oblast to the east, Sea of Azov to the southeast, Taurida Governorate to the south, and Kherson Governorate to the west, and covered the area of the Luhansk Oblast, Luhansk, Donetsk Oblast, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Zaporizhzhia Oblasts of modern Ukraine. Location The government was created in 1802 when the Novorossiya Governorate was split into three governorates. The Yekaterinoslav Governorate bordered to the north with the Kharkov Governorate and Poltava Governorate, to the west and southwest with the Kherson Governorate, to the south with the Taurida Governorate and Sea of Azov, and to the east with Don Host Oblast. Administrative divisions Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
