Nikolay Vtorov

Nikolai Alexandrovich Wtorow (Russian Николай Александрович Второв; scientific transliteration Nikolai Alexandrovich Vtorov; * 15 Apriljul / April 27 1866greg in Irkutsk, Russian Empire, .. † May 20, 1918 in Moscow, Soviet Russia) was a Russian industrialist and the richest man in Russia before the October Revolution. His fortune was estimated at 60 million gold rubles.

Life

The father of Wtorow was a merchant of Irkutsk, leaving Nikolai and his brother a fortune of 13.6 million rubles. 1897 moved Wtorow to Moscow, where he established a network of trading houses called sons AFWtorows, which ruled over a large part of the trade in Siberia soon. He let the Spaso House build there later called representative buildings. Wtorow bought up dozens of banks and companies. Later he went into the arms industry and the metalworking industry and owned several large production in the Donets Basin. Wtorow founded the factory Elektrostal in the government of Moscow, as well as the country's first plant chemical dyes. Together with the businessman Ryabushinsky he also founded the first automobile factory AMO, which was renamed in the Soviet Union in SIS and SIL and trucks produced. During the First World War Wtorow posted by defense contracts big profits.

After the October Revolution of 1917 Wtorow expressed though the new Bolshevik rulers of his loyalty, but fell in May 1918 an assassination victim, who was never solved.