Oleksiy Alchevsky
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Oleksiy Alchevsky

Ukrainian entrepreneur, philanthropist, and industrialist

Aleksey Kirillovich Alchevsky (Russian: Алексей Кириллович Алчевский; Ukrainian: Олексій Кирилович Алчевський, romanized: Oleksii Kyrylovych Alchevskyi; 1835 – 1901) was Russian entrepreneur, philanthropist, and industrialist of Ukrainian ancestry. He established the first financial group in Imperial Russia and created several banks and industrial societies in Sloboda Ukraine.2

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Born 1835, died May 20, 1901.1

About

His role in the development of Russian industry was so important that in 1903 the Yuryevka station of the Yekaterinoslav Railway was renamed to Alchevsk in his honor, later developing into a buoyant town.

From Wikipedia’s article on Oleksiy Alchevsky, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

Companies

Career

Occupation: banker.3

Personal life

  • Born1835, Sumy4
  • DiedMay 20, 1901, Saint Petersburg5
  • CitizenshipRussian Empire6
  • SpouseKhrystyna Alchevska7

Alchevskyi was married to an educator and pedagogue Khrystyna Zhuravlyova. They had six children.

Grigory Alchevsky, a composer

Khrystia Alchevska

Ivan Alchevskyi

Anna Alchevskaya

Dmitry Alchevsky, a victim of Red Terror in Crimea

Nikolay Alchevsky

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