Ilimov, Ivan Petrovich

Born on January 20 ( February 1 ), 1820 . He studied at the Institute of the Mining Engineers Corps , but did not complete the full course and was released in 1840 from the junior officer class to the laboratory of the Department of Mining and Salt Affairs, with the renaming as an official of the Mining Department. In this laboratory, he was first a student, then he held the positions of senior laboratory assistant (1843), probiere (1847) and finally berg-probiere (1851).

Even in the mining corps, he zealously studied chemistry and in 1841 and 1843 published three articles on chemistry in the Mining Journal . In addition to working in the laboratory, Ilimov was also a chemist at the Manufacture Council (since 1843), and in 1848 he was appointed to the St. Petersburg Duma to be present at the time of branding measures and weights; In addition, he was a corresponding member of the Free Economic Society , and also taught chemistry in the Noble Regiment . In his lectures, he held new, at that time, concepts of dissociation , the unity of matter, etc. As a good lecturer, which attracted listeners, Ilimov was invited to give several public lectures in the Passage building.

In 1851, Ilimov left a place in the laboratory and took up the development of the Petersburg Chemical Plant, where he soon opened the production of paraffin candles; then he took an active part in the formation of the Society for the Factory Processing of Animal Products, which aimed to develop stearin and soap production in the Perm Territory - one of the most important centers of salotene business. The company founded a plant in Yekaterinburg , which was also intended to produce sulfuric acid; however, due to financial problems, he did not last long. Four privileges taken by Ilimov for various improvements in stearin and soap manufacture date back to this time. Upon the cessation of the affairs of society in 1859, he published a pamphlet, “In Memory of shareholders of the Animal Processing Factory. ”

At the same time, Ilimov did not leave theoretical work in chemistry either; worked in his own laboratory.

Subsequently, I.P. Ilimov contributed to the implementation of the capital required for the construction of the railways: Poti-Tiflis , Oryol-Vitebsk and Tambovo-Saratov .

Being one of the ardent supporters of the need to build an oil pipeline in the form of a continuous pipe from Baku to Batum for the benefit of the Transcaucasus oil pipeline, he formed a company and was the first to receive a concession for construction, but the pipeline issue, initiated in 1883 and subjected to multiple discussions in the Committee of Ministers, finally resolved in a negative sense: at a congress of oil industrialists in 1884 it was recognized that "Russian kerosene does not yet have a position on the world market" ^[1] .

I.P. Ilimov was engaged in oil business not only from the practical, but also from the scientific side. he published the works:

• Oil pipeline (St. Petersburg: type. F.S.Sushchinsky, 1884. - 15 p.)
• Oil pipeline and oil industry in Baku (Notes of the Imperial Russian Technical Society, 1884; St. Petersburg: type. F.Sushchinsky, 1884. - 48 p.)
• Report on the current situation of the oil industry in Baku and the oil pipeline (Notes of the Imperial Russian Technical Society, 1885)
• Note on the rational processing of oil (Notes of the Imperial Russian Technical Society, 1885)
• Oil Tax Report (Proceedings of the Society for the Promotion of Russian Industry and Trade (1886)
• Russian Bakuoli and Baku Kerosene in the American Way (Notes of the Imperial Russian Technical Society, 1886; St. Petersburg: type. F.S.Sushchinsky, 1886. - 15 p.)

Even in his youth, Ilimov was fond of poetry and literature, and this tendency did not leave him until the end of his life, although his poems, well known in a friendly circle, were not published.

Ivan Petrovich Ilimov - the owner of land in Oranienbaum (the so-called Ilimovskie heights in the area of ​​the current street of the Red Fleet of the city ​​of Lomonosov ).

He died on September 22 ( October 4 ), 1891 . He was buried at Holy Trinity Cemetery in Oranienbaum. The grave has not been preserved.

• Kulibin S. Ilimov, Ivan Petrovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.