Khryakov, Nikolai Grigorievich

Born in 1829 in the Kursk province in a peasant family. He graduated from the Lgov School (1843). In the summer of 1861 he came to Kiev , where he got a job at the Kiev branch of the St. Petersburg and Moscow trading companies that purchased sugar . Sufficiently frequent trips to the provinces gave him the opportunity to directly get acquainted with each of the owners of sugar factories, which played an important role in his future activities.

Exchange Activities

On September 27, 1862, a proposal was received from the Kiev merchant of the 1st Guild Nikolai Khryakov “On the construction of a city ​​exchange in Kiev” from the Kiev merchant. Three years later, on November 5, 1865, the “Charter of the Kiev Exchange” was approved by Nikolay Grigoryevich Khryakov. Having agreed to the formation of the contingent of the exchange , Nikolai Khryakov opened with his surname the “List of persons who expressed a desire to join the exchange”. Subsequently, in this “List” there were 102 people, among whom the then-famous merchant Tereshchenko Artemy Yakovlevich was among the 19th. At the first meeting of the Exchange Society, which was held on February 13, 1869, Khryakov was unanimously elected Chairman of the Exchange Committee.

He turned to the committee members with a request to make contributions to the construction of the exchange building and he himself made the first 500 rubles in cash, which was more than the contributions of some companies. The exchange building was built on the corner of Institutskaya and Khreshchatyk streets (it was destroyed during the German occupation). According to other sources, on Institutskaya street, 7 (now - the club of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ).

Financial Activities

In 1863, Nikolai Khryakov came to work in the Kiev office of the State Bank as a member of the accounting committee for trade and industrial issues. In addition to banking , he actively spoke with scientific articles on financial matters, becoming quite famous not only in the editorial board of the journal, but also in the financial circles of St. Petersburg. To judge Nikolay Khryakov’s personal contribution to the financial business, it’s enough to say that over the 9 years of his work in the Kiev office of the State Bank, according to the Minister of Finance, he was awarded three gold medals “for diligence” for wearing around Annenskaya’s neck over the years, Vladimir and Alexander tapes.

Nikolai Khryakov and Nikolai Bunge , well-known figures in Kiev, belonged to the initiative in organizing the Kiev Mutual Credit Society , created with the aim of developing urban housing construction .

Public Service

In 1871, Nikolai Khryakov was elected to the vowels of the city ​​council. His impeccable service in this field was well known. Only the last four years of his life, he was forced for health reasons to abandon this post.

Entrepreneurship

Mykola Khryakov is known as the organizer of the construction of sugar factories in Ukraine . Factories of Stepanovsky, Severinovsky and Kashperovsky societies were built directly under his care, and others - with his help. In 1878, at one of the meetings of the syndicate of sugar producers in the South-Western Territory, Nikolai Khryakov was unanimously elected chairman of this association. He also organized the construction of paper mills at the Dityatkov Society, and subsequently became its managing director. Thanks to the use of the best technologies, paper production at the factories of this society was brought to the highest quality, and employees felt moral and material satisfaction. According to a contemporary, each factory was an orderly village with a vocational school, a public school , a hospital , and a good library .

A considerable merit to Kiev was the founding of Nikolay Khryakov a brewery on Podil and a roller mill. The plant's productivity reached 340,000 buckets of different beer (Bavarian, Czech , Munich, export, porter and honey) in the amount of 410,000 rubles per year. Roller mill Nikolai Khryakova grind 900,000 pounds of rye per year, from which five grades of flour were produced, its sales were mainly local.

For special achievements in the mill, Nikolai Khryakov was awarded the Big Silver Medal at the Kiev Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition in 1897 . In the same year, at a meeting of the Kiev Merchants' Assembly, Nikolai Grigorievich Khryakov and Nikolai Artemievich Tereshchenko were elected honorary members of this meeting.

Charity

Nikolai Khryakov was a man of great soul and high inner culture. Being a true fan of painting , he with genuine pleasure provided for the organized in the city art exhibitions a spacious hall in his own house on 9 Bibikovsky Boulevard .

Nikolai Khryakov was the first to raise a question in the stock exchange about the need to build a technical school in Kiev and organized fundraising for this purpose. Thus collected 75,000 rubles were used to establish the Polytechnic Institute named after Alexander II in Kiev ^[1] .

For 25 years, Nikolai Khryakov was an honorary guard on the economic part of the Kiev Theological Academy . Being himself a deeply religious person, he cared about supporting the splendor of the temples in the city, donating quite large amounts of his own funds for this. He also showed particular concern for low-income residents of Kiev, because he always remembered that he was the son of a poor peasant. As Stepan Solsky later recalled the mayor of Kiev : “Nikolai Grigorievich Khryakov never interrupted fraternal union and fraternal love with the environment from which he emerged. Many of Kiev’s poor families received all possible support and relief from his grief . ”

In early May 1900, Nikolai Khryakov fell ill with a Spanish woman . His death on the morning of May 15 (28), 1900 caught many who knew him unexpectedly. They recalled that literally two weeks before the illness, he showed great energy for his age, being interested in the issue of the speedy implementation of the project to connect Kiev with a direct railway line to St. Petersburg and Odessa .

On the day of the funeral on May 17 (30), 1900, the entire Bolshaya Podvalnaya, where Nikolay Khryakov and his family lived in house No. 17, was filled with people and crews. The entire official Kiev , representatives of industrial and commercial capital considered it their duty to carry this person on the last journey. The funeral procession alternately stopped in the places where the deceased worked: at the buildings of the city ​​council and the exchange on Khreshchatyk , as well as at Bankova - at the Kiev office of the State Bank . Short prayers were served here and heads of the mentioned institutions made a farewell word ^[2] .

They buried Nikolai Khryakov at the Askold grave . The cemetery on Askold's grave in the 1930s was destroyed, and the grave of Nikolai Khryakov disappeared without a trace.

• Wife - Khryakova Stefanida Ivanovna (18 ?? - 1889);
• Daughter - Maksimovich Maria Nikolaevna (18 ?? - 1907);
• Son-in-law - Maksimovich Nikolay Ivanovich (1855-1928), Ukrainian architect.

• Order of St. Anne , 2nd degree,
• Order of St. Vladimir , 4th and 3rd degrees,
• Order of St. Stanislav 3rd, 2nd and 1st degrees.

• How to brew beer at the oldest brewery in Kiev (photo)
• Patrons of Kiev
• Chervinsky, P. The Kiev Years of Nikolai Khryakov
• Tsalik, S. Having arrived in Kiev, the son of a peasant Nikolay Khryakov managed to become a real merchant by the age of 30