Fedir Terechtchenko

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Fedir Fedorovych Tereshchenko (also transliterated as Fyodor Fyodorovich Tereshchenko; Ukrainian: Федір Федорович Терещенко; 11 November 1888 - 30 January 1950) was a Ukrainian aircraft designer and industralist. A member of the prominent Tereshchenko family of sugar magnates, he became one of the leading figures of the Kyiv's early aviation movement, serving as a founding member and major sponsor of the Kyiv Society of Aeronautics (KTP). At his estate in Chervone, he also established one of the first aviation workshops on the territory of modern-day Ukraine. Tereshchenko initially studied within the mechanical department of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, where he became active within the early aeronautical circles of the institute and helped established the KTP in 1909. That same year, he purchased a Blériot XI and began to fly independently, which led him to construct his first monoplane, which he presented at the 12th All‑Russian Congress of Aeronauts and Physicians. In 1910, he developed his Chervone estate into an aviation workshop that produced several early designs of monoplanes and supplied aircraft to the Imperial Russian Army. During the First World War, he expanded his workshop into a small factory, and later headed a mobile aviation workshop in Moscow. After the Russian Revolution, Tereshchenko's property was nationalized and his aviation enterprise collapsed, which led him to emigrate to France. For the rest of his life, he lived in relative obscurity until his death on 30 January 1950.