Николаевская железная дорога
Reaching the rank of Major General, Chevkin was appointed Chief of Staff of the Corps of Mining Engineers in 1834. We also had visited England and other parts of Western Europe to study the development of railways before joining Lieutenant-Colonel Pavel Petrovich Melnikov and Colonel N. O. Kraft in Alexander von Benckendorff's Commission looking into the viability of establishing the Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway.