page_title: Nikolay Vtorov
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Nikolay Vtorov / Biography / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: Exterior of Spaso House, residence of U.S. Ambassador in Moscow, Russian Federation. (built 1913).
context_page_description: Nikolay Alexandrovich Vtorov was a Russian industrialist. According to a 2006 Forbes study, which excluded the ruling House of Romanov, he held the title of Russia's wealthiest man on the eve of World War I, owning an estimated 60 million rubles in gold.
context_section_description: Vtorov decided to stay in Russia after the 1917 Revolution and pledged loyalty to the Bolshevik regime. Less than a year later, in May 1918, he was assassinated; the exact circumstances of his death remain unknown. He was buried in the cemetery of the now-defunct Skorbyashensky Monastery in Moscow.
  Many of Vtorov's largest wartime projects, inherited by the Soviets, are still in operation:
  City of Elektrostal (former Zatishye) foundries and defense plants
  City of Noginsk (former Bogorodsk) foundries and defense plants
  Zavod Imeni Likhacheva (Originally AMO truck company) defunct since 2012. Legacy; MSTs6 AMOZIL company
  Lesser-known Vtorov plants are still operating all over the city of Moscow. Many have been converted into offices and shopping malls.
  Vtorov's former residence, Spaso House, was seized by the Soviet government in 1918 and has since housed the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1933–1991) and United States Ambassador to the Russian Federation (1991–present).
caption: Vtorov's home (Spaso House)
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