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What did Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte do as minister of finance?

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He introduced the gold standard, reformed finances, encouraged the development of Russian industries with the help of foreign capital, and opened up Siberia to large-scale colonization with the construction of the Trans-Siberian RR .

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