Nikolay Vtorov
Nikolay Vtorov | |
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Born | Nikolay Alexandrovich Vtorov 27 April 1866 Irkutsk, Irkutsk Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | 20 May 1918 | (aged 52)
Resting place | Skorbyashensky Monastery Moscow, Russia 55°47′21″N 37°35′32″E / 55.78917°N 37.59222°E |
Nationality | Russian |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Parent(s) | Alexander Fedorovich Vtorov Claudia Yakovlevny Malkov |
Nikolay Alexandrovich Vtorov (
Biography
Life and career
Nikolay owed his fortune to his father, Alexander Vtorov, a successful Irkutsk businessman[3] who set up a trans-Siberian retail shopping network. Upon his death in 1911, Alexander Vtorov's net worth was estimated at 13.6 million roubles; it passed to Nikolay and his lesser-known brother, who had lived in Moscow since 1897. Nikolay Vtorov used his father's fortune to take over numerous banks and manufacturing companies; his aggressive takeover policies earned him the nickname of "the Russian Morgan". He has been called "the first to break the age-old traditions in favor of a rational and intelligent organization of commercial business."[4]
Upon Russia's entry into World War I, Vtorov became one of the major military contractors for the tsarist government, amassing huge state subsidies to build new manufacturing plants in central Russia; he was de facto defense industry manager for the whole of the Moscow region.
Death and legacy
Vtorov decided to stay in Russia after the
Many of Vtorov's largest wartime projects, inherited by the Soviets, are still in operation:
- City of Elektrostal (former Zatishye) foundries and defense plants
- City of Noginsk (former Bogorodsk) foundries and defense plants
- Zavod Imeni Likhacheva(Originally AMO truck company) defunct since 2012. Legacy; MSTs6 AMOZIL company
Lesser-known Vtorov plants are still operating all over the city of Moscow. Many have been converted into offices and shopping malls.
Vtorov's former residence,
See also
- List of unsolved murders
References
- ISBN 978-1-86064-673-7.
- ^ "Старые русские". www.forbes.ru. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
- ISBN 978-90-04-19185-3.
- ISBN 0-691-01249-0), p. 123.
- ^ "Nikolai Vtorov – the richest man of Russian history". Russian Personalities (in Russian). 2016-01-17. Retrieved 2019-11-28.