Vasily Vasilievich Balabanov (January 30, 1873, Bakhmut, Ukraine Balabanov - January 27, 1947, Vancouver, Canada) was an administrator and Provincial Governor of Imperial Russia. Vasily Balabanov went to the University of Moscow, graduated in 1894, married and took care of the family estate in Bakhmut until 1905 when under the Government of Russia he went to Turkistan on a fact finding mission. Wikipedia
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