 However, the proposed financial scheme was not accepted and in 1891 the pipeline construction was postponed as premature.In 1886, a group of Baku industrialists asked for permission to construct their own Trans-Caucasian pipeline.The idea was backed by Azerbaijani industrialist Zeynalabdin Taghiyev who wrote a letter to Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Dondukov-Korsakov, the governor of the Caucasus.