Grigory Peredery

[1][2] Grigory Petrovich Peredery was born at Yeysk, an important port town and a noted spa resort beside the Sea of Azov.

[2] The Russian railways were enjoying a period of rapid expansion, and later that year Peredery went to work of the construction of the Dankov-Smolensk line which would open in 1899.

Peredery successfully combined research and teaching with practical engineering work focused on bridge design and construction.

Конструкция, проектирование и расчет" which dealt with the design of reinforced concrete bridges, and the necessary parameters and calculations to be applied.

[2] Between 1907 and 1914 he also lectured at the Engineering Institute of Transport Communications (Петербургского "Института инженеров путей сообщения ") in Saint Petersburg.

[1] The period since 1914 had been one of enduring crisis, which for the transportation sector meant addressing the urgent need for reconstruction following the widespread destruction and degradation caused by the Civil War and surrounding events.

There was a desperately urgent need to implement educational reforms that would permit the mass training of dedicated transport engineers to restore the railways and develop a modern rail infrastructure worthy of the young republic.

One of the main challenges driving the restructuring involved making a start on changing the social composition of the student body.

Preparing large numbers of fully-fledged engineers capable of solving the technical and practical challenges involved in restoring and reconstructing the transport network meant identifying and applying the most politically acceptable methods for training young proletarian comrades whose shared defining characteristic was an insufficiency of basic general education.

[2] Grigory Peredery died in Moscow aged 82 on 14 December 1953, by which time his work had earned him a number of significant state awards and honours.

[4] Peredery masterminded over 30 major concrete and metal bridges over the Volkhov, Moskva, Dnieper, Vologda and Ob rivers.