Ivan Alexejewitsch Wychnegradski

Ivan Alexejewitsch Wyschnegradski (russian Иван Алексеевич Вышнеградский) was a Russian engineer, politician, scientist and university lecturer.

In 1862 he was appointed professor of practical mechanics at the Mikhailov Art Academy of St. Petersburg.

In 1887-92 he was the Russian Minister of Finance. He restrained the social protection laws, which had been enforced by his predecessor Nikolai von Bunge; In 1890, the occupational safety for women and children fell. His ruthless tax legislation met especially the peasants and the agrarian nobility. They were forced to finance the industry by the tax increases. The compulsion to export grain (which amounted to about ¾ of the total ice up to 1914) was so high that it became known as Hungerexport under Wyschnegradski. He is said to have said: "We will go hungry, but export." The deficit in the state budget was again balanced and the international financial took new confidence in Russia.

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