Boris Bakhmeteff
Introduction '''Boris Alexandrovich Bakhmeteff''' () (also spelled '''Bakhmetieff''' or '''Bakhmetev''') (May 14, 1880 – July 21, 1951) was an engineer, businessman, professor of civil engineering at Columbia University and the only ambassador of the Russian Provisional Government to the United States. He was unrelated to his predecessor as ambassador, George Bakhmeteff.
Biography He was born on May 14, 1880, in Tbilisi, Georgia. He married Helen on July 22, 1905, in Kineshma, Russia.His wife Helen died in 1921.He became a member of the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1906.His position as ambassador was recognized by the United States government until his resignation in June 1922, when he established the Lion Match Company with other Russian immigrants. At his request the role of representative of Russia was transferred to his assistant Serge Ughet, financial attaché of the embassy, who held this position until United States recognition of the Soviet Union in 1933.He introduced the concept of ''specific energy'' in hydraulics in his thesis and book ''Hydraulics of Open Channels'' in 1932.He married Marie C. Cole in 1938 in Duval County, Florida.In 1947 he received the Norman Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers.He died on July 21, 1951, in Brookfield, Connecticut, of a heart attack.
Legacy The Russian archives and a professorship of Russian at Columbia are named after him, as is a Harvard research fellowship in hydraulics.Bakhmeteff's former residence in Washington, D.C.Boris Bakhmeteff was also on the Board of Directors for the Tolstoy Foundation Center in Valley Cottage, New York.
Works *Boris Aleksandrovich Bakhmateff, ''Hydraulics of Open Channels'' (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1932)*Boris Aleksandrovich Bakhmateff, ''The Mechanics of Turbulent Flow'' (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1941)
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