Bazaine arrived in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1810 with Lieutenant Fabrom, but due to war with France, did not immediately take up his post.

He was then sent to Yaroslavl, to Poshehone and then in 1812, due to the war with France, he was deported to Eastern Siberia, where he spent more than two years.

In 1815, with the end of war in Europe, he returned to Saint Petersburg, where with the new rank of colonel, he was appointed chair professor of higher analytics and mechanics at the Civil Engineering Institute.

He received many honours and awards for his extensive contribution to the infrastructure of Russia, as well as honorary fellowship of a number of science academies across Europe for his ground-breaking mathematical theses.

His main works are: For the last buildings he wrote a remarkable treatise, in which he argued for the possibility of huge water savings in the Ladoga Canal, by ships passing through its locks: "Mémoire sur les bassins d'épargne" (napech.

From 1820 to 1832 Bazaines prominent works include: rebuilding St. Isaac's Cathedral and on the same design building several other churches; the first chain bridge in Russia at Ekaterina park; restructuring, under his personal supervision, Ohtenskogo powder factory; deepening the river estuary at Neva and its channels; erection of buildings of the Senate and the Synod; rebuilding the University; the remarkable construction of the dome over the cathedral of St.Trinity (at the St. Petersburg side), 87 feet in diameter.

Bazaine devoted himself entirely to science and analytics whilst in Siberia, writing his great treatise on differential calculus and several memoirs about plane geometry and properties of various lengths in three dimensions.

Bazaine wrote several treaties on mathematics, transportation and the civil genius including a monograph on steamboats and their use in navigating canals and rivers.