Nikolai Vladimirovich Markovnikov, also spelled Morkovnikov () (1869,

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- 1942, location of death unknown) was an

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and

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, chief architect of the

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in 1914–1919. Nikolai Markovnikov attended the

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in 1888–1892. He founded the very first technical and construction engineering courses for women in 1905-1916 and Department of

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at the Moscow Polytechnical Institute for Women. In 1914, Nikolai Markovnikov was appointed chief architect of the Moscow

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and remained on this post until 1919. He supervised the restoration of the walls and

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of the Kremlin and then the re-equipping of the governmental establishments in 1918. Nikolai Markovnikov designed and built the Small Circular Railway in 1903-1910 (''Малая Окружная железная дорога'', today known as the

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) and the

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in a Moscow neighbourhood.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Markovnikov 19th-century architects from the Russian Empire 1869 births 1942 deaths