Andrei Korf
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Andrei Nikolaevich Korf (Russian: Корф, Андрей Николаевич, 1831-1893) was a Russian Baron of Baltic German descent, 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 (education, colonization of the Ussuriysk region, protection of sealskin trade, commercial relations with the Far East countries and coal mines in the island of Sakhalin.
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