Andrei Korf

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Andrei Nikolaevich Korf (Russian: Корф, Андрей Николаевич, 1831-1893) was a Russian baron of Baltic German descent and an infantry general.

General Korf initiated the establishment of the Officers Infantry School. In 1859 participated in the attack on Veden. 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.