Alchevsky, Oleksii [Alčevs’kyj, Oleksij], b 1835 in Sumy, d May 1901 in Saint Petersburg. Mining engineer, industrialist, and banker, husband of Khrystyna Alchevska, and father of the composer Hryhorii Alchevsky, the singer Ivan Alchevsky, and the poet Khrystia Alchevska. Alchevsky owned the Kharkiv Southern Russia Commercial Bank and financed a number of coal-mining and metallurgical firms in the Donbas, including the Donetsko-Yuriivskyi metallurgical plant, today the Komunarske Metallurgical Plant. Alchevsky committed suicide after being refused a government loan to save his bank and firms, which had gone into a slump following the Russian monetary reform of 1897.