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Corps of Mining Engineers
Militarized organization in Imperial Russia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 Konstantin Chevkin acting as Chief of staff.[1] Russian geologist Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann was involved with the corps.[2]
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