the merchant of the first guild, the founder of the plant and the joint-stock company alexei kirillovich alchevskyelopment of the industry of the russian empire at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. genius in terms of the size of his fortune at the beginning of the 20th century , alchevsky was one of the ten richest people in russia, his assets were estimated grandiose by that time the amount of 30 million rubles. he created the first joint-stock mortgage bank and financial-industrial group in the empire, combining investment and production capital at his own expense alchevsk built churches, hospitals, schools for workers and their families, as a private person paid for the construction of the world's first monument to taras shevchenko, it was installed in his estate in kharkov in 1899 and people. whose name is today, the city of alchevsk in the luhansk people's republic in the plot of olga mokhova, it was such a time after cancellation. the basis of law russia gradually turned from an agrarian into an industrial power. and he was such a person, enterprising, progressive, ready to take risks and