Sheshmintsev, Lev Kirillovich

Orthodox. Landowner of the Kovno province (60 dessiatines ).

After graduating from the Moscow Technical School with honors in 1879, for two and a half years he was a mechanic at the Krivorotov brothers iron foundry in Yelets , then he was the head of the construction of agricultural machines and implements at the factories of the Maltsov Trade and Industrial Partnership.

In 1887, when the Maltsevsky factories transferred to the treasury, Sheshmintsev moved to Blagoveshchensk , where he accepted the position of managing director of the partnership of the Amur Shipping Company. Leaving this position in 1893, he and a group of people received a contract for the supply of cement for the Trans-Baikal Railway and, as the managing director of the Amursky cement partnership and the Siberian cement partnership, built two cement plants in Siberia.

In 1898, he was invited to the position of the chief manager of factories and factories of the joint-stock company of Maltsevsky factories, and introduced a new method of cement production at the factories. The following year, he founded the Joint-Stock Company of the Maltsovsky Portland Cement in St. Petersburg and was elected the managing director of this company. Since 1902, he served as chairman of the board of the Maltsov factories.

He was elected the vowel of the Zhizdrinsky district (since 1900) and Kaluga provincial (since 1903) zemstvo assemblies . He was a member of the Kaluga party "For the Tsar and Order".

In February 1907 he was elected a member of the II State Duma from the Kaluga province. He was part of the right-wing faction, then the Octobrist faction. Consisted of the chairman of the commission for the acceptance of the State Duma premises and a member of the commission on the normal rest of employees in trade and craft establishments.

In the autumn of the same year he was elected to the State Duma from the 1st and 2nd congresses of city voters of the Kaluga province. He was a member of the Octobrist faction. He was a fellow chairman of the financial commission and a member of the commission on the working matter. In the discussion of labor legislation, he defended the interests of large industrialists.

At the end of his powers, a member of the State Duma headed the board of the Maltsevsky factories and the joint-stock company of the Maltzovsky portland cement. Engaged in charity. Was married.

After the revolution he emigrated to France. He died in 1924.

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• Biography in the Cement Online Magazine