Mikhail Egypteos – a Russian shipbuilder engineer of Ethiopian origin, a major general who supported the October revolution and in 1918 was a member of the Bolshevik Military-Revolutionary Committee.

Born in 1861. In 1880 he graduated from the shipbuilding department of the Naval Technical School in Kronstadt. Then worked as a shipbuilder in the Kronstadt port, was in charge of ship repair. In 1886 he graduated from the Nikolaev Naval Academy and continued to serve in Kronstadt. In 1890 became the senior shipbuilder of Kronstadt. In 1890 Egypteos developed a project for a reconnaissance cruiser of 1200 tons.

In 1907 Colonel M. Egypteos was appointed chairman of the technical commission for the development and construction of a turbine cruiser of the “Novik” type.

From 1909, a senior shipbuilder M. Egypteos became a chief ship engineer and head of the Russian state shipbuilding department. In 1911 he was promoted to major general in the Corps of Naval Engineers.

After the October Revolution, M. Egypteos became a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee in 1918. Then worked at the ‘Sudproekt’ (Soviet ship building project agency) developing and building the Red Army’s Navy. Died in 1932.

Via Dmitri Kovalevich