Andrei Korf
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Baron Andrei Nikolaevich Korf (Russian: Корф, Андрей Николаевич, 1831-1893) was an Imperial Russian baron of Baltic German descent and an infantry general of the Imperial Russian Army. The names of the village of Korf and the Korfa Gulf commemorate him.
General Korf initiated the establishment of the Officers Infantry School. In 1859 participated in the attack on Veden in Caucasus. In 1884, Korf was appointed governor-general of the Maritime Province, where he undertook several measures that facilitated further development of the region. He worked to improve education, to encourage colonization of the Ussuriysk region, to protect the sealskin trade, to create commercial relations with the Far East countries, and to build coal mines on the island of Sakhalin.
Baron Korff's marble tomb in the Khabarovsk City Cathedral was destroyed by the Communists in 1930. The Soviet historians held him responsible for the Kara Incident of 1889.
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