Zachary Y. Korneev (on other data - Karneev "[3]) - was in military service since 1775. Known in its time a mason. In 1775, he was sent to the Nekrasov Cossacks to return them to the Russian citizenship. In 1782 - was appointed director of savings (that is a member of the Exchequer) in Kursk governorship. In 1785 - appointed vice-governor of Orel (where he was master of the Masonic lodge, based IV Lopukhin. In January 1793, Minsk (in the central part of Belarus) was attached to the Russian Empire as a result of a 2-second partition of Poland, and April 3 of that year, became the center of the new Minsk province. And in 1796, Korneev send the governor to Minsk, where he became the first governor of the city. In 1805, due diligence Governor Korneev, was founded by the governor's garden (later called the city and is today - a park named. Maxim Gorky). At the same time, it was the foundation of the Square and another that received in 1870 the name of Alexander. When it began redevelopment of Minsk. Trunk Main street of Minsk, built in the middle of the XVI century, as the site of the Moscow-Vienna postal tract, at Korneev was rescheduled and was named in his honor Zakharyevskaya. Today it is the main and central avenue of Minsk - Independence Avenue, about 15 km. In 1808 he was appointed senator, and in 1810 - a member of the Council of State. In 1815, Prince Alexander Golitsyn (who was his friend) made Korneeva one of the vice-presidents of the Russian Bible Society. Golitsyn also appointed him a trustee of Kharkiv school district (the post held by Korneev, 1822). Like most of the Masons, Korneev first was a man of liberal (as Ming the governor, he championed freedom of conscience in relation to the Uniates), but later changed his liberal views on intolerance.