The Corps of Mining Engineers was a militarized organization founded in
Imperial Russia
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the List of Russian monarchs, Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended th ...
on 1 January 1834 to manage mining and oil extraction.
Yegor Kankrin, the
Minister of Finance
A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation.
A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...
was the first head of the organization, with Major General
Konstantin Chevkin acting as Chief of staff.
Russian geologist
Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann
Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann ( rus, Эрнст Ка́рлович Го́фман, Ernst Karlovich Hofmann, 8 January 1801 – 23 May 1871) was a Russians, Russian geologist, geographer, explorer, and lecturer. He was a geologist who accompanied Otto ...
was involved with the corps.
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Engineering organizations
Military of the Russian Empire