Nikanor Alexis Uteev

© Enid News and Eagle

05-1961

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Graveside services for reinternment of the ashes of Nikanor Alexis Uteev, who died August 5, 1961, in Sacramento, California, beside his beloved wife, the late Alexandra Uteev of Enid, will be at 1:30 PM Wednesday at Memorial Park Cemetery, with Father Joseph Kolb officiating. Arrangements were by Ladusau – Evans.

Nikanor was born on August 6, 1890, in Vanoslavka, Kazan Province, Russian Empire. After completing training at Ufa Surveying School, he surveyed individual farm homesteads from communally held lands in the Volga region, work for which he received official commendation from Emperor Nicholas II.

In June 1913, Nikanor married his childhood sweetheart, Alexandra Kutianin, in Kazan Province, Russian Empire. In World War I, he served as a Lieutenant in the Imperial Russian Army, on the Southwestern Front against Austria. Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, he joined the forces of Adm. Kolchak, fighting against the Communist Regime in Siberia.

With the Communist victory, Nikanor fled Russian territory to China, crossing the Gobi Desert of Mongolia on camelback by a previously unexplored route. He established a civil engineering firm in Tientsin, China, which among other projects, built-in port facilities at Mukden, Manchuria. He immigrated to the United States in 1924 via Japan and Honolulu, and attended the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in Architecture.

In 1929, Nickanor's wife, Alexandra, was able to leave the Soviet Union to join him, after a decade of separation, traveling to San Francisco, California, from Russia via Southhampton and New York. In order to reunite, Nikanor and Alexandra had to circle the globe.

During the early 1930s, he supervised the construction of several parks in San Francisco. He went to work for the Corps of Engineers in 1935 and moved to Sacramento, California, where he spent the remainder of his life.

After their long separation in life, by the cataclysms of war and revolution, it was the particular wish of Nikanor and Alexandra that their remains should rest together for eternity, a wish lovingly accomplished by their daughter, Thai Uteev Johnson, of Enid, and their granddaughter, Alexandra Uteev Johnson of Enid.

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