Konstantin Chevkin

Konstantin Vladimirovitch Chevkin (1802–1875) was Minister of Transport in Imperial Russia (1855–1862).

He also participated in the defeat of the Polish November Uprising.

[1] 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 Pavel Petrovich Melnikov and Colonel N. O. Kraft in Alexander von Benckendorff's Commission looking into the viability of establishing the Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway.

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