Nikolai Alexandrovich Wtorov
Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Wtorov ( Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Второ́в ; scientific transliteration Nikolaj Alexandrovič Vtorov ; * April 15, July / April 27, 1866 greg. In Irkutsk , Russian Empire ; † May 20, 1918 in Moscow was the richest of Russia ) Man of the country before the October Revolution . His fortune was estimated at 60 million gold rubles .
Life
Wtorov's father was a merchant from Irkutsk and left Nikolai and his brother a fortune of 13.6 million rubles. In 1897 Wtorov moved to Moscow, where he founded a network of trading houses called Sons AFWtorov , which soon dominated much of the trade with Siberia . He had the prestigious building later called Spaso House built there. Wtorov bought dozens of banks and companies. Later he got into the arms industry and metal processing and owned several large production facilities in the Donets Basin . During the First World War, Wtorow founded the Elektrostal factory in the Moscow governorate as well as the country's first chemical dyes factory. Together with the businessman Rjabuschinski, he also founded the first automotive plant AMO , which was renamed SIS or SIL in the Soviet Union and manufactured trucks. At the time of the First World War, Wtorow made great profits from arms contracts.
After the October Revolution of 1917, Wtorov expressed his loyalty to the Bolsheviks , but in May 1918 he fell victim to an assassination attempt that was never cleared up.
Web links
- Biography in the Great Encyclopedia of the Russian People (Russian)
- Article about Wtorow , in: Ėkonomičeskaja Istorija, 7/2001 (Russian)
- Article Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Wtorow in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Wtorov, Nikolai Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Второв, Николай Александрович (Russian); Vtorov, Nikolaj Alexandrovič (scientific transliteration) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian industrialist and the richest man in Russia before the October Revolution |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Irkutsk |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1918 |
| Place of death | Moscow |