Boris Bakhmeteff

Boris Alexandrovich Bakhmeteff (Russian: Борис Александрович Бахметев) (also spelled Bakhmetieff or Bakhmetev) (1880- July 21, 1951)[1] was an engineer, businessman, professor of Civil Engineering at Columbia University and the only ambassador of the Russian Provisional Government to the United States.[2] He was unrelated to his predecessor as ambassador, George Bakhmeteff.[3] His wife Helen died in 1921.[4] His position as ambassador was recognized by the US government until his resignation in June 1922,[5] when he established the Lion Match Company with other Russian immigrants.[2] He introduced the concept of specific energy in hydraulics in his thesis and book Hydraulics of Open Channels.[6] In 1947 he received the Norman Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

The Russian archives and a professorship of Russian at Columbia are named after him, as is a Harvard research fellowship in hydraulics.

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  1. ^ "BORIS BAKHMETEFF OF COLUMBIA DEAD; Professor of Civil Engineering Since 1931 Was Kerensky Regime's Envoy to U.S.". New York Times. July 22, 1951. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00712F639591A7B93C0AB178CD85F458585F9. Retrieved August 1, 2009. 
  2. ^ a b Oleg Budnitskii (September 2003). "Boris Bakhmeteff's Intellectual Legacy in American and Russian Collections". Slavic & East European Information Resources 4 (4): 5–12. doi:10.1300/J167v04n04_02. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a903946838. Jared S. Ingersoll; Tanya Chebotarev (2003). Russian and East European books and manuscripts in the United States: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture. New York: Haworth Information Press. pp. 5–12. ISBN 0-7890-2405-5. http://books.google.com/?id=zadr5hTqRg8C&pg=PA5. 
  3. ^ "PLANS OF BAKHMETIEFF. New Russian Envoy's Stay Is Only To Be Temporary" (PDF). New York Times. June 8, 1917. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D0DE7DF1F38E533A2575BC0A9609C946696D6CF. 
  4. ^ "Mme. Bakhmeteff, Wife of Russian Envoy Dies of Heart Disease in Owego". New York Times. July 25, 1921. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E0CE5D81731EF33A25756C2A9619C946095D6CF. Retrieved August 1, 2009. 
  5. ^ Hassell, James E. (1991). Russian Refugees in France and the United States Between the World Wars. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. pp. 33. ISBN 0-87169-817-X. http://books.google.com/?id=uUsLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA33. 
  6. ^ Kay, Melvyn (2008). Practical Hydraulics. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis. pp. 150. ISBN 0-415-35115-4. http://books.google.com/?id=xCtAV_MCD1EC&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=Boris++Bakhmateff. 

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