Konstantin Vladimirovitch Chevkin (1802–1875) was

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(1855–1862). Chevkin served in the

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fighting in the

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and

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. He also participated in the defeat of the

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. 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 The Corps of Mining Engineers was a militarized organization founded in Imperial Russia on 1 January 1834 to manage mining and oil extraction. Yegor Kankrin, the Minister of Finance was the first head of the organization, with Major General Kons ...

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, Ad ...

's Commission looking into the viability of establishing the

Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

. 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