Pyotr Ionowitsch Gubonin

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Pyotr Ionowitsch Gubonin

Pyotr Ionowitsch Gubonin ( Russian Пётр Ио́нович Губо́нин ; * 1825 in the village of Borisowo near Kolomna ; † September 30th July / October 12th  1894 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian merchant of the 1st guild , entrepreneur and patron .

Life

Gubonin, son of the serf mason Jonah Mikhailovich Gubonin and his wife Irina, went to Moscow in 1842 and began working as a mason. As a serf, he was awarded a silver medal by Tsar Alexander in 1856 for his work in the renovation of the Bolshoi Theater . In 1858 he bought himself free and took on orders for masonry work.

Gubonin participated in the Transcaucasian trading company founded in 1857 by Nicolaus von Tornauw , Wasili Alexandrowitsch Kokorew , Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Novoselski and the merchants IF Mamontow and PA Medynzew , the later Baku - Naphtha company , which succeeded in 1860 according to the plans of Justus von Liebig to start up an oil refinery . With Kokorew, Gubonin also founded the Nord insurance company .

Gubonin financed the construction of the Komissarow technical center , which was founded in 1865 by the engineer Christian Christianowitsch Meyen and named after Osip Ivanovich Komissarow , who in 1866 thwarted an assassination attempt on Alexander II . This technical center became the Moscow Automechanical Institute and finally today's Moscow State Mechanical Engineering University (MAMI) . In 1872 Gubonin also financed the construction of the Polytechnic Museum .

As a result, Gubonin and the engineer Sadowski received the order to build the stone bridges for the new railway line from Moscow to Kursk (1866). He then took part in the construction of other railway lines: from Orlov to Vitebsk , from Grjasi to Tsaritsyn (1868), from Losowa to Sevastopol (1871), from Perm to Tyumen (1874), from Perm to Yekaterinburg . He was also involved in the Baltic Railway and in the construction of trams in St. Petersburg and, from 1872, in Moscow.

1870 in St. Petersburg by bankers of private bankers and merchants, among them Gubonin, Abram Moiseievitch Warschawski and the Russian State Bank , the Society of mechanical and mining factories established that once the St. Petersburg Nevsky factory bought and then other mines and smelting works . As a result, the Nevsky factory became one of the largest Russian locomotive factories .

In 1871 Gubonin, who had acquired quarries near Podolsk , founded the company Gubonin, Porochowstschikow & Co. together with the architect Alexander Alexandrowitsch Porochowstschikow to build a cement factory and a brick factory , which went into operation in 1875.

Gubonin bought the Gurzuf country estate in Crimea in 1881 and began extensive viticulture there. He built hotels in his park and dug wells in order to develop the place into a European seaside resort. He also built the Church of the Assumption there.

1889 founded Gubonin the Société d'Industrie Minière de Goloubovka-Berestovo-Bogodoukhovo that in yekaterinoslav governorate the mine Golubowka four coal pits and the coal mine Berestovo-Bogoduchowo operation.

Gubonin was very involved in building the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow and in many other charitable projects . In Tver he financed the construction of the seminary.

For his services to the development of the patriotic industry and his rich foundations, Gubonin received the title of privy councilor . He was appointed to the Council of Commerce for his work in the Russian Technical Society . He was a major sponsor of the Polytechnic Exhibition in Moscow in 1872, where he headed the railway department.

In recognition of his social activities, Gubonin was raised to the nobility in 1870. In 1875, after the construction of the Sevastopol Railway, he became a Real Councilor of State , associated with the hereditary nobility. In 1878 he received the noble coat of arms with the motto Not for himself, but for the fatherland! . He was an honorary member of the Pedagogical Council of the Imperial Technical University in Moscow, and he was a member of the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences , Anthropology and Ethnography .

Gubonin died in Moscow and, as he wished, found his grave in Gurzuf in the Church of the Assumption, which was demolished in 1932. He was married to Marina Sewostjanovna and had two sons, the merchant 1st guild and wine merchant Sergei (* 1851) and the councilor and member of the board of trustees of the Komissarow technical center Nikolai (1861-1918), his son Pyotr (* 1884) in the Served in the Kriegsmarine and his daughter Olga (1885–1975) became a mathematician .

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  1. ↑ 1-yalta: History of Gurzuf (Russian, accessed December 12, 2015)
  2. ↑ Hans Höfer von Heimhalt : The petroleum and its relatives: history, physical and chemical composition, occurrence, origin, discovery and extraction of petroleum . 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Vieweg 1912, p. 19.
  3. ↑ Moscow State University of Mechanical Engineering (MAMI): About UMECH / History (accessed December 9, 2015)
  4. ↑ Deutsche Wertpapierauktionen GmbH: Russian Society of Mechanical and Mining Factories (accessed December 9, 2015)
  5. ↑ EF Sun (Сун Э. Ф): Moscow Aktiengesellschaft for the production of cement and other building materials, as well as trafficking (historic memorandum) (Московское Акционерное Общество для производства цемента и других строительных материалов и торговли ими (историческая записка)). Единый информационный портал Подольского региона "Подольские Новости", archived from the original on October 23, 2011 ; Retrieved October 23, 2011 .
  6. ↑ GurzufMuseum: Owner of the "Gursuf" estate (accessed on December 13, 2015)
  7. ↑ Crimean travel: Gursuf (accessed on 11 December 2015)
  8. ↑ Historisches Wertpapierhaus AG (HWPH): Société d'Industrie Minière de Goloubovka-Bérestovo-Bogodoukhovo (accessed December 9, 2015)
  9. ↑ IA Kenja: Not for yourself, but for the fatherland! . Moscow Journal No. 10 (2014), p. 8, ISSN  0868-7110 (Russian).
  10. ↑ Part 12 of the General crest book of the noble families of the Russian Empire, p 143: Gubonins crest (Russian retrieved on December 11, 2015)
  11. ↑ Weekly Everything for You , Volgograd 2010, Issue 1 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Gubonin, Pyotr Ionowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Губо́нин, Пётр Ио́нович (Russian); Gubonin, Petr Ivanovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian entrepreneur and patron
DATE OF BIRTH 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Borisowo near Kolomna
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1894
Place of death Moscow