Aleksander Burba
Aleksander Adolfovich Burba August 1918 October 1984 was a Soviet organizer of industry and education, a scholar in the field of chemical and metallurgical technologies, Ph.D. , Professor , Director of the Mednogorsk CopperSulfur Plant , the first Rector of the Orenburg Polytechnic Institute , now the Orenburg State University. Honorary Citizen of Mednogorsk, Orenburg Oblast .
Aleksander Burba was born in Yenakievo, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Ukrainian State. His father, a native of Lithuania Adolf Bonifatsievich Burba, was a weighman at the Yenakievo Railway Station. He was awarded on behalf of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II a silver pocket watches with an engraving To the best weighman of Russia. Aleksander began working even while still in high school in Rykovo . For two years he was a teacher of drawing at the same high school, where he studied.
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