Vladimir Ivanovich Kovalevsky, born on November 10, 1848, in Novo-Sepukhov, Kharkov province, and died on November 2, 1934, in Leningrad, was a Russian statesman, scholar, and entrepreneur. He held the position of secret advisor and wrote numerous articles and translations on agricultural topics. In 1892 and 1900, Kovalevsky headed the Department of Trade and Manufactures and was one of the authors of the concept of Russian protectionism. From 1900 to 1902, he served as the Deputy Minister of Finance. In 1906 and 1916, Kovalevsky led the Russian Technical Society. He was also one of the founders of the Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute and the State Institute of Experimental Agronomy in Leningrad.

Vladimir Ivanovich Kovalevsky, a statesman and financier, was born in 1844. He received higher education at the former St. Petersburg Agricultural Institute and served in the Ministry of State Properties. Later, moving to the Ministry of Finance, Kovalevsky was appointed director of the Department of Manufactures and Trade, and from 1900 to 1902, he held the position of Deputy Minister of Finance, overseeing trade and industry affairs. He was also the chairman of the Imperial Russian Technical Society in Petrograd. Among his publications are "Statistical Outline of Dairy Farming in Northern and Central European Russia" (1879, co-authored with I.O. Levitsky) and "Fundamentals of Cultivation and Technical Processing of Sugar Sorghum" (1883). Under his editorship, the Ministry of Finance published collections "Productive Forces of Russia" (1896) and "Russia at the End of the 19th Century" (1900).