Nikolai Sinebrychoff

11 January] 1848 in Tver, Russia[1]) was a Russian businessman settled in Finland, who founded the Sinebrychoff brewery in 1809.

Pyotr Sinebryukhov (Sinebrychoff), father of Nikolai Sinebrychoff, was originally a poor tenant farmer, who moved to Kymi in Old Finland in the late 1790s and founded a brewery to serve the Ruotsinsalmi sea fortress.

After the Finnish War, Sinebrychoff moved the business activity from Ruotsinsalmi, which had become insignificant, to Suomenlinna (then known as Viapori) near the city of Helsinki.

In the same year, he received permission to build a brewery on the lot south of Hietalahdentori.

In 1842 a luxurious new main building was built in the brewery area, which currently houses the Sinebrychoff Art Museum.

A portrait of Nikolai Sinebrychoff by Johan Erik Lindh in the 1830s.
Nikolai Sinebrychoff's signature, which is nowadays used in the labels of the Nikolai Sinebrychoff beer cans.