Konstantin Vladimirovitch Chevkin (1802–1875) was

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in Imperial Russia (1855–1862). Chevkin served in the Imperial Russian Army fighting in the

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and

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. He also participated in the defeat of the

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November Uprising. He then was sent on diplomatic missions to France and Germany. Reaching the rank of Major General, Chevkin was appointed Chief of Staff of the Corps of Mining Engineers in 1834. We also had visited England and other parts of Western Europe to study the development of railways before joining Lieutenant-Colonel

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and Colonel N. O. Kraft in

Alexander von Benckendorff Konstantin Alexander Karl Wilhelm Christoph Graf von Benckendorff (russian: Александр Христофорович Бенкендорф, Alexander Khristoforovich Benkendorf, – ) was a Baltic German Cavalry General and statesman, A ...

's Commission looking into the viability of establishing the

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. Chevkinite-(Ce) is a mineral which was named after Konstantin Chevkin.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chevkin, Konstantin 1802 births 1875 deaths People from the Russian Empire in rail transport