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As a committed Communist the Dutch Ir. Sebald Rutgers fully supported the Russian Revolution. In 1922, in the days of the New Economic Politics, he founded an autonomous international trust with the help of Lenin, to exploit the neglected mines of the Kemerovo district: the AIK Kuzbass.

Most of the specialists and technicians came from Holland, and the workers were recruited in the USA. All profits were reinvested in the company. As intended the Soviet Union took over as soon as the AIK had become sufficiently efficient. This was in 1927.

jan rutgers in 1928

Han van Loghem, senior architect
Jan Rutgers, engineer
Kemerovo

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