Andrei Nikolaevich Korf was an Imperial Russian

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 baron

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 of Baltic German

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 descent and an infantry

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 general of the Imperial Russian Army

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. The names of the village of Korf and the Korfa Gulf commemorate him.

General Korf initiated the establishment of the Officers Infantry School. In 1859 participated in the attack on Veden

Vedeno

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 in Caucasus

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. In 1884, Korf was appointed governor-general of the Maritime Province

Primorsky Krai

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, where he undertook several measures that facilitated further development of the region. He worked to improve education, to encourage colonization of the Ussuriysk

Ussuriysk

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 region, to protect the sealskin trade, to create commercial relations with the Far East

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 countries, and to build coal mines on the island of Sakhalin

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. The Soviet historians held him responsible for the Kara Incident of 1889.