He worked as a carrier, brought on camels by winter road to the mines up to 300 carts of goods. According to unconfirmed reports — the owner of a small steam mill, which in 1915 brought to the village. Andreevka. Philistine. was engaged in country work, and carting , according to legend, he even called the river Manjurka. He lived on the legendary «Vinogradovsky» Zaimka – the same one near which happened in 1919, the battle of the Amur partisans with the Japanese.