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= Moisei Ostroverhy =

Moisei Kirillovitch Ostroverhy (Russian: Моисей Кириллович Островерхий; Ukrainian: Мойсей Кирилович Островерхий; 1838, Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire – 16 November [O.S. 3 November] 1912, Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian entrepreneur, teacher, director of the Kiev Credit Bank, who lived and worked in Kiev.

Biography
Ostroverhy was born in Kiev in 1838 into a family of Ukrainian Cossack extraction, in Kiev, administrative centre of the Kiev Governorate, then in the Russian Empire. He was enrolled at the 1st Kiev Gymnasium from which he graduated with excellent grades. He studied at the Saint Vladimir Imperial University of Kiev before entering the civil service.

He was first assigned to the educational sector and served as a teacher of the Russian language at the provincial school in Kremenchuk, a town in the Poltava Governorate, current Ukraine.

He redirected himself towards the financial sector, becoming director of the newly-established Kiev Mutual Insurance Company against Fire. He resigned his post in 1892 to become director of another newly-established financial company, the Kiev City Credit Union, specialised in lending loans and mortgages for urban development and housing construction in Kiev.

He was actively involved in the development of the Mering Estate, and helped establish the first cinema in Kiev. By 1894 he was promoted to the rank of state councillor.

Ostroverhy married Vera Grigorievna, with whom they had three children: Andrei, Nikolai and Nadezhda.

He died on 3 November 1912, and is buried at the Baikove Cemetery.