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Boris Alexandrovitch Bakhmeteff (1880- July 21, 1951) was an engineer, businessman, professor of Civil Engineering at Columbia University and the last ambassador of the Russian Provisional Government to the United States. He was unrelated to his predecessor as ambassador, George Bakhmeteff. His wife Helen died in 1921. His position as ambassador was recognized by the US government until his resignation in June 1922, when he establised the Lion Match Company with other Russian immigrants. He introduced the concept of specific energy in hydraulics in his thesis and book Hydraulics of Open Channels.

The Russian archives and a professorship of Russian at Columbia are named after him, as is a Harvard research fellowship in hydraulics.

Works

 * Boris Aleksandrovich Bakhmateff, Hydraulics of Open Channels (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1932)
 * Boris Aleksandrovich Bakhmateff, The Mechanics of Turbulent Flow (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1941)