Oleksiy Alchevskyi

Oleksij Altschewskyj 1901, photograph by Alfred Fedecki

Oleksiy Kyrylowytsch Altschewskyj ( Ukrainian Олексій Кирилович Алчевський ; Russian Алексей Кириллович Алчевский / Alexei Kirillovich Altschewski * 1835 in Sumy , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire ; 24 † April ^{. Jul} / 7. May  1901 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a Ukrainian mining engineer , Industrialist , banker and philanthropist .

Life

Alchevskyi monument in Kharkiv

Oleksij Altschewskyj was born in 1835 into the family of a small grocery store. In 1862 he moved to Kharkov and started his entrepreneurial career as the owner of a small tea shop. As early as 1868 he founded and ran the first Russian private bank, the Charkow Handelsbank in southern Russia. Alchevskyj founded and financed numerous coal mining and metallurgy companies in the Donbas . Among these was the Donets – Yurivka smelter, which was founded in 1895 and is today's Alchevsk metallurgy complex in what was then Yurivka, which was renamed Alchevsk in his honor after his death .

As a philanthropist, he financially supported numerous initiatives, such as a school for the deaf, a women's Sunday school run by his wife Chrystyna and several village schools. Due to the currency reform of 1897 and the economic crisis of 1899-1902, his bank and his companies got into trouble, whereupon he asked the Russian Finance Minister Sergei Witte for a loan to save them. After he was denied this, he committed suicide in 1901 at the Vitebsk train station in Saint Petersburg .

family

Oleksij Altschewskyj was since 1862 the husband of the pedagogue Chrystyna Altschewska (1841-1920) and among other things father of the composer Hryhorij Altschewskyj (1866-1920), the opera singer Ivan Altschewskyj (1876-1917) and the poet Chrystja Altschewska (1882-1931).

Oleksij Altschewskyj on a 2– ₴ commemorative coin from 2005

Honors

In 1901 the eastern Ukrainian city ​​of Alchevsk was named after him, which bears his name until 1932 and again since 1991. The Ukrainian National Bank issued a two hryvnia commemorative coin with his portrait on his 170th birthday in 2005 .

Web links

Commons : Oleksij Altschewskyj  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Article about the Alchevskyj family on the website of the Alchevsk Central Library (Russian)
• Biography Oleksij Altschewskyj on secrethistory.su (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biography Oleksij Altschewskyj on Ukrainians-world , accessed on August 24, 2016 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ Article on Alchevsk Metallurgical Complex in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / University of Toronto), accessed on August 25, 2016 (English)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Article on Alchevsky, Oleksii in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / University of Toronto), accessed on August 24, 2016 (English)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Article on Alchevska, Khrystyna in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / University of Toronto), accessed on August 24, 2016 (English)
5. ↑ Biography Oleksij Altschewskyj ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Alchevsk Central Library, accessed on August 24, 2016 (Russian) 
6. ↑ Article on Alchevsky, Hryhorii in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / University of Toronto), accessed on August 24, 2016 (English)
7. ↑ Article on Alchevsky, Ivan in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / University of Toronto), accessed on August 24, 2016 (English)
8. ↑ Article on Alchevska, Khrystia in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / University of Toronto), accessed on August 24, 2016 (English)
9. ^ Website of the National Bank of Ukraine ; accessed on August 25, 2016 (Ukrainian)