Nikołaj Kotowicz

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Nikolay Ivanovich Kotowicz, Russian Николай Иванович Котович (born December 25, 1875 in Vilnius, died May 8, 1934 in Brześć on Bug) - Russian architect and then national activist in the Second Polish Republic Curriculum vitae

In 1894 he graduated from one of Vilnius junior high schools and in 1899 he was an engineer institute in St. Petersburg. Received a job as an engineer in the Ministry of Interior. From 1903 he worked in the city council of St. Petersburg. At the same time he was an architect-engineer at the central leadership of the Association of Friends of the Nation and the Association of Mutual Credits of the Petersberg District. He has designed many buildings in the city, including theaters and cinemas, as well as the airport of the all-Russian imperial aero club. He then lived in the village of Wyrica near Gatecau, where he designed chram. He was active in local socio-cultural organizations. After the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, he was arrested several times by the Cheka. At the beginning. In January 1921 he arrived in Kazan, where he took the position of lecturer at a local technical college. At the beginning. 1922 went to Poland, settling in Pińsk. He soon established a construction and surveying office. In subsequent years he designed many buildings in the city. At the same time he became involved in the activities of the Russian national movement. In 1922, he founded a branch of the Battle of the Organization of Gen. Aleksander P. Kutiepov. From 1924 he was active in the Russian General Association (ROWS). In 1925, he assumed the leadership of the Russian branch of the Russian Charity Committee. He participated in the intelligence service of Soviet special services with a white Russian emigre under the name of "Trust". In 1928 he actively participated in the agitation before the election campaign for the parliament. In the same year he moved to Brześć on the Bug River, where he founded another unit of the Combat Organization, A. P. Kutiepowa. However, due to embezzlement, she was kicked out. He was later elected urban architect, but a year later he had to resign due to illness. From the mid. In 1929 he worked at a trading company and in 1930 founded his own construction company. He managed to design several buildings in the city.

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