Sergey Witte. The first prime minister

Ingenious Minister of Finance, an outstanding diplomat, the first Prime Minister in the history of Russia. The era of Sergey Yuevich Witte is the era of reforms, as a result of which the country experienced an invisible economic increase. The Russian ruble became convertible and received the status of a reliable global currency. The large-scale construction, the development of whole regions, the construction of new railway tracks, the development of the Trans-Siberian highway, the revival of the Northern Sea Route, the appearance of the first Russian icebreaker - all this thanks to Witte happened in an incredibly short time. Witte We are obliged to the emergence of a developed system of vocational education in Russia. Merit of Witte was also the adoption by the king of Manifest on October 17, 1905 - the law proclaimed the main civil liberties and the authorities of the monarch with the decisions of the State Duma, Russia entered the path of constitutional reforms