Alexander Pol

Alexander Nikolayevich Pol (; 20 August 1832 – 26 July 1890) was a Russian archaeologist, geologist, ethnographer and businessman of Baltic German descent. He is best-known for discovering Kryvbas, a major iron ore region of Eastern Europe.

Biography Alexander Pol was the descendant of a noble family of Baltic Germans on his father's side, and of a well-known Ukrainian Cossack starshyna family on his mother's, in Maloaleksandrovka, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). On his mother's line he was a far relative of Polubotok and Poletika families. stimulating the rapid economic growth of Krivoy Rog and, more broadly, of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of what was then the Russian Empire.