Tropyanov

(autotranslated, could have mistakes)

An enthusiastic historian and caretaker of the Ai-Todor lighthouse, Yuri Ivanovich Tyurin, who worked a lot at the Central State Administration of the Russian Navy, managed to establish that in 1898, the lower Inkerman lighthouse was commanded by a free-hire retired provincial secretary Nikifor Ivanovich Tropyanov, and the upper one was commanded by army reserve gunner Vasily Andreevich Artsyuk. The lighthouse keeper's salary at that time was 400 rubles per annum, and he had two civilian assistants under his command. In 1901, Tropyanov was replaced by Georgy Semenovich Morozov, who had no rank, and the deceased Artsyuk was replaced first by his widow Ekaterina Spiridonovna, and then by the Odessa tradesman Artseulov.