Bari was a close friend of Vladimir Shukhov, Leo Tolstoy, Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolay Zhukovsky, Fyodor Schechtel, Ivan Rerberg.

Veneamin Bari was a publicist, striving to educate Jews, he was favoured by Alexander von Humboldt, in whose honour the son was named.

[1] Veneamin Bari, who at that time was corresponding with Karl Marx, was forced to leave the Russian Empire and in 1862 emigrated to Swiss Zürich with his children and wife Henriette Sergeevna.

During his university years, he met Fyodor Orlov [ru], who later recalled Bari as a leader of a student fellowship, who introduced him to the ETH and the city life.

[5] Alexander and his younger brother William, a SPMU graduate, co-founded a small enterprise to construct and produce electric motors.

Soon Bari acquainted N. A. Sytenko, a retired engineer colonel and a member of the Russian Imperial Technical Society [ru].

[6] The first 10 km long oil pipeline on the Absheron Peninsula was opened in Autumn 1878, it started at Balaxanı and ended in the Black City.

[4] On September 13, 1880, Sytenko, Bari, and the titular councillor N. Rubinsky sent to the office of Moscow Governor-General a request for construction of an oil plant in the capital.

The witness recalled that the plant was situated in the Vyhino district on the company land and connected to the Nizhny Novgorod railroad.

[4]At the All-Russia Exhibition of 1882 in Moscow, Kuskovo Refinery was awarded with a bronze prize for high quality oil production.

In five years since its foundation ‘Bari Technical Company’ assets included the boiler plant in Moscow and several branch offices in Saint Petersburg, Kharkiv, Nizhny Novgorod, and Yekaterinburg.

Bari also offered a kind of medical leave — in case of sickness a worker was paid full salary for the first week and 50% for the second.

V. Bari Technical Company’ also constructed other objects, such as oil pipelines, grain elevators, bridges, Hyperboloid towers, etc.

[7][8] Alexander Bari was a friend of many brightest people of his time — Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolay Zhukovsky, Sergey Chaplygin, Fyodor Schechtel, Ivan Rerberg, and others were frequent guests in his house.

The obituary in the newspaper Utro Rossii [ru] noted that: Alexander Bari founded the Russian-American Kerosene Factory in Moscow, he established the Moscow Oil Industrial Society in Grozny, created the car-building plant in Mytishchi and opened an exceptional boiler plant near the Simonov Monastery.

His business interests were wide and interesting, he could simultaneously build bridges in Orenburg, steel barges on Danube and locomotive works in Vologda.Under different circumstances, in some other country A. V. Bari could have become the next J. P. Morgan or Andrew Carnegie, but he was a true Russian in his soul, he loved his Fatherland and dealing with millions gave the major part of his capital to the workers.

He was a generous philanthropist and there were hundreds of people, whom he supported financially.In April 1918, Izvestia published an article exposing the counter-revolutionary conspiracy headed by Vladimir Bari, he was arrested and interrogated by Felix Dzerzhinsky.