Yalovetsky Boleslav Antonovich 
(10.08.1846–11.07.1918)

Railway engineer, Minister of Railways. 
Born in Sventsiansky district of the Vilna province. He graduated from the Vilensky gymnasium, then the Nikolaev engineering school and the Nikolaev engineering academy. 
Yalovetsky began service as a military engineer, and then, after retiring, he moved to serve on the Nikolaev railroad. He was involved in the construction and operation of railways, took an active part in various commercial and industrial enterprises, for 15 years managed the Aleksandrovsky Mechanical Plant, turning it into an enterprise of European type and scale, was the designer of a special train for the royal family built at this plant, was one of the founders “The First Society of Access Railways in Russia” and the “Russian-Belgian Metallurgical Society”. His most important accomplishments were the project of constructing portable railways for military purposes and agricultural needs, and also for these purposes the construction of narrow-gauge railway access roads. 
Yalovetsky engaged in social and political activities, although in any party was not. As an elected representative from Sventsyansky district, he participated in the development of grounds for Zemstvo institutions in the Vilnius, Kovno and Grodno gubernias, and stood for the autonomy of Poland with a separate legislative assembly.

He died of cholera in Petrograd (an obituary in the Nash Vek newspaper, July 11, 1918) and was most likely buried at the Mitrofanyevsky cemetery, which was liquidated in the 1930s. 
Cape on the east coast of Bay Neznaemiy on the southern island of Novaya Zemlya. Named in 1902 by A.A. Borisov, whom Yalovetsky provided material support while studying at the Academy of Arts.