Nikolay Dobrokhotov

Nikolay Nikolayevich Dobrokhotov was a Soviet scientist and metallurgist, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Ukrainian SSR, Academician of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences.

Nikolay Dobrokhotov was born on March 27, 1889 in Arzamas in Nizhny Novgorod Guberniya in the Russian Empire. His father Nikolay Nikanorovich Dobrokhotov was a telegraphist. His mother Maria Fedorovna Vladimirskaya, graduate of Smolny Institute was from the Vladimirskie family, many of whose members were engaged in social activities , were friends of Maxim Gorky. Nikolay Dobrokhotov was the eldest son in a family ofchildren. There was no secondary school in Arzamas at that time and Dobrokhotov was sent to Nizhny Novgorod, where in 1900 he entered the Realschule.

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