Apollon Fedorovich Mevius (Аполлон Фёдорович Мевиус; 1820 – 1898) was one of the founding figures of metallurgy in Russia. Mevius’ father was a surveyor of the Tomsk mining district and later the head of mines at Olonets and a foundry at Lugansk. The younger Mevius began study at the Institute of the Corps of Mining Engineers at age 12. Upon graduation ten years later, he was sent to oversee metallurgical plants in the Urals before undertaking further study of the science in western Europe. He translated state-of-the-art texts into Russian and oversaw various projects upon returning to Russia. In 1861, he took charge of the Lugansk Mining District as his father had done, and spent the rest of his career dealing with matters related to coal mining, smelting, and railways in the region, now eastern Ukraine. In 1870, he moved to Kharkov (Kharkiv) to work at the recently-established Kharkov Technological Institute, setting up its department of metallurgy.