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Russian People in Rail Transport: Samuel Polyakov, William Lafayette Darling, Fyodor Pirotsky, Vladimir Yakunin, Pavel Petrovich Melnikov

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Description:Chapters: Samuel Polyakov, William Lafayette Darling, Fyodor Pirotsky, Vladimir Yakunin, Pavel Petrovich Melnikov, List of Ministers of Transport of Russia, Miron Yefimovich Cherepanov, Yefim Alekseyevich Cherepanov. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Samuel (Shmuel) Polyakov (also Poliakoff, Poliakov, Russian: ) was a Russian businessman, informally known as the "most famous railroad king" of the Russian Empire, the senior member of the Polyakov business family, a philanthropist and a Jewish civil rights activist, co-founder of World ORT. Polyakov's business interests concentrated in southern Russia and Ukraine. By the time of his sudden death at the age of 50 he was credited with the construction of one quarter of Russia's railroads, his personal net worth was estimated at 31.4 million roubles. Samuel and his brothers, future bankers Lazar Polyakov and Yakov Polyakov, were born in a small trader's family in Dubrovno, Orsha district of present-day Belarus. Samuel helped Yakov, the elder brother, in running father's business in alcohol tax farming, but after the emancipation reform of 1861 this opportunity dwindled, and Samuel started his own construction business. According to Sergei Witte (connected to Polyakov's business interests prior to his move into government service), Samuel Polyakov started his business empire as a proprietor of private postal station in Kharkov Governorate in Ukraine. Polyakov performed "some kind of important services" for the Minister of Post and Telegraph Ivan Tolstoy, later handled Tolstoy's business interests on a regular basis, and in return "Tolstoy launched Polyakov on his career." This type of relationship between statesmen and Jewish entrepreneurs was common in post-emancipation Russia; Tolstoy by the time o...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2273061We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Russian People in Rail Transport: Samuel Polyakov, William Lafayette Darling, Fyodor Pirotsky, Vladimir Yakunin, Pavel Petrovich Melnikov. To get started finding Russian People in Rail Transport: Samuel Polyakov, William Lafayette Darling, Fyodor Pirotsky, Vladimir Yakunin, Pavel Petrovich Melnikov, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
38
Format
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Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1156927145

Russian People in Rail Transport: Samuel Polyakov, William Lafayette Darling, Fyodor Pirotsky, Vladimir Yakunin, Pavel Petrovich Melnikov

Books LLC
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Description: Chapters: Samuel Polyakov, William Lafayette Darling, Fyodor Pirotsky, Vladimir Yakunin, Pavel Petrovich Melnikov, List of Ministers of Transport of Russia, Miron Yefimovich Cherepanov, Yefim Alekseyevich Cherepanov. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Samuel (Shmuel) Polyakov (also Poliakoff, Poliakov, Russian: ) was a Russian businessman, informally known as the "most famous railroad king" of the Russian Empire, the senior member of the Polyakov business family, a philanthropist and a Jewish civil rights activist, co-founder of World ORT. Polyakov's business interests concentrated in southern Russia and Ukraine. By the time of his sudden death at the age of 50 he was credited with the construction of one quarter of Russia's railroads, his personal net worth was estimated at 31.4 million roubles. Samuel and his brothers, future bankers Lazar Polyakov and Yakov Polyakov, were born in a small trader's family in Dubrovno, Orsha district of present-day Belarus. Samuel helped Yakov, the elder brother, in running father's business in alcohol tax farming, but after the emancipation reform of 1861 this opportunity dwindled, and Samuel started his own construction business. According to Sergei Witte (connected to Polyakov's business interests prior to his move into government service), Samuel Polyakov started his business empire as a proprietor of private postal station in Kharkov Governorate in Ukraine. Polyakov performed "some kind of important services" for the Minister of Post and Telegraph Ivan Tolstoy, later handled Tolstoy's business interests on a regular basis, and in return "Tolstoy launched Polyakov on his career." This type of relationship between statesmen and Jewish entrepreneurs was common in post-emancipation Russia; Tolstoy by the time o...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2273061We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Russian People in Rail Transport: Samuel Polyakov, William Lafayette Darling, Fyodor Pirotsky, Vladimir Yakunin, Pavel Petrovich Melnikov. To get started finding Russian People in Rail Transport: Samuel Polyakov, William Lafayette Darling, Fyodor Pirotsky, Vladimir Yakunin, Pavel Petrovich Melnikov, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
38
Format
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Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1156927145

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