Artemy Tereshchenko

Life & Legacy

Artemy Yakovlevich Tereshchenko (Russian: Арте́мий Я́ковлевич Тере́щенко; Ukrainian: Арте́м Я́кович Тере́щенко, Artem Yakovych Tereshchenko; 1794 – 1873) was the first entrepreneur in the Tereshchenko family and the founder of the Tereshchenko dynasty, one of the wealthiest families in the world. Nicknamed "Karbovanets", he was a guild merchant, a hereditary honorary citizen, a hereditary nobleman, and Burgermeister of Hlukhiv City from 1842 to 1845. He established the production of the sugar beet in Ukraine and funded charitable works.