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Dmitrii Ivanovich Zhuravskii
One of the pioneers of bridge construction and structural mechanics in Russia. Zhuravskii attended the Nezhin lycée and entered the St. Petersburg Institute of the Corps of Railroad Engineers where he was influenced by the academician Mikhail Ostrogradsky. In the beginning of his career he took part in the surveying and planning of the Moscow - Saint Petersburg Railway. In 1857-58 he led the reconstruction of the Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg. In 1871-76 he took part in the reconstruction of the Mariinsky Canal System.

Nikolay Vasilyevich Nikitin
Born in 1907 in Tobolsk, Russia graduated from the Tomsk Technological Institute with training in construction. In 1932, he designed the train station of Novosibirsk. By 1937, he was living and working in Moscow. He turned his attention to calculations for the foundation of the monumental Palace of Soviets which was to be constructed at the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. In 1957, he was appointed chief designer of Mosproekt-2 - Institute for the Planning of Housing and Civil Engineering Construction in the City of Moscow.

Lavr Dmitrievich Proskouriakov
was one of the foremost authorities on bridge engineering and structural mechanics in the Russian empire and the early Soviet Union. The research and practical activities of Lavr Proskouriakov were aimed at the elaboration of a perfect bridge structure, and he managed to achieve his goal: this was the noble 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) long railway bridge across the Yenisei near Krasnoyarsk that was built between 1896 and 1899. Overall, Proskouriakov managed to elaborate the most suitable types of spans for a variety of bridges. He designed many unique multi-span bridges, including the bridges over Oka near Kashira (1897), Belev (1897) and Murom (1912), Vyatka on the Cherepovets-Vologda-Vyatka line (1902), Volkhov (1902), Amur near Khabarovsk (1916) on the Trans-Siberian Railway, and so forth.