Background
Bakhmeteff, Boris Alexander was born on May 14, 1880 in Tiflis, Caucasus, Russia. Son of Alexander Paul and Julia (Novitsky) Bakhmeteff.
Bakhmeteff, Boris Alexander was born on May 14, 1880 in Tiflis, Caucasus, Russia. Son of Alexander Paul and Julia (Novitsky) Bakhmeteff.
Graduate Classical Gymnasium Tiflis, 1898. C.E., Institute of Engineers of Ways of Communication, St. Petersburg, 1903. Studied at Polytechnic Institute, Zurich, 1903-1904.
Doctor of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute, St. Petersburg, 1911.
Came to the United States, 1917, naturalized, 1935. Assistant dozent and professor of general and advanced hydraulics, hydraulic structures, water power engineering, theoretical mechanics and applied mechanics Polytech. Institute Emperor Peter the Great, St. Petersburg, 1905-1917.
Construction engineering specializing on water power, St. Petersburg, 1907-1915. Enlisted with Red Cross, beginning of World War. Chief plenipotentiary Central War Industrial Committee to the United States, 1915-1916.
Member Anglo-Russian Purchasing Commission, 1915-1916. Appointed under-secretary of state (vice minister) Ministry for Commerce and Industry of Provisional government of Russia under premiership of Prince Lvov, 1917. Appointed head Extraordinary Russian Commission to the United States and Russian ambassador representing Provisional (Kerensky) Government, 1917.
Continued as ambassador of the State of Russia until 1922. Construction engineering New York City, since 1923. Chairman of the Board Lion Match Company.
President, director Northern Mercury Felt Corporation. Director Potash Company American, Research Corporation. Professor сivil engineering, Columbia, 1931, honorary professor, 1951.
Member board consultant engrs. Panama Canal, 1946-1947. Director Humanities Fund, Russian Student Fund.
Author: Lectures on Hydraulics (Russian), 1912. Varied Flow of Liquid in Open Channels (Russian), 1912. Variable Flow of Liquids (Russian), 1914.
Hydraulics of Open Channels, 1932. Mechanics of Turbulence, 1936. Contributor to Foreign Affairs, Slavonic Review and journals of America Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, others.
Fellow American Geography Society, Foreign Policy Council, New York Academy Sciences, Institute Aero. Sciences (associate). Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Soc C.E. (honorary 1946.
Member board engineering foundation), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Engineering Institute (Canada), Connecticut Academy Arts and Sciences, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi. Member Russian Orthodox Church. Clubs: Century, University (New York City).
Married Helen Speransky, July 15, 1905 (died 1921). Married second, Marie Helander Cole, June 7, 1938.