Military Engineering-Technical University
Военный инженерно-технический университет | |
Motto | Spiritual force and engineering competence |
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Type | Public |
Established | 1810 |
Rector | Nikolai Ivanivich Ludchenko |
Academic staff | 43/Ph.D.300 |
Students | 1500–2000 |
Address | 22 Zakharyevskaya Street , , 191123 , 60°00′26.41″N 30°22′22.66″E / 60.0073361°N 30.3729611°E |
Campus | Urban |
Nickname | Vitu |
Website | http://viit.vamto.mil.ru/ |
The Saint Petersburg Military Engineering-Technical University (Nikolaevsky) (Russian: Санкт-Петербургский Военный инженерно-технический университет, VITU), previously known as the Saint Petersburg Nikolaevsky Engineering Academy, was established in 1810 under Alexander I. The university is situated in the former barracks of the Cavalier-Guard Regiment where the university was founded.[1]
Description
Military Engineering-
Military Engineering-Technical University has six faculties preparing specialists in the following branches:
- Military construction,
- Military energy resource engineering,
- Naval base construction,
- Sanitary engineering,
- Mechanization of construction,
- Special for civil.[2]
The university trains experts in the field of construction of buildings and special structures, engineering and technical systems and power industry. It has an experimental base for testing various thermal-mechanical and power equipment, structures and construction materials, and carries out research and development activities. It provides military university trained officers for all the Engineering Troops of Russia, a counterpart of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
History
This is one of Saint Petersburg's eldest Higher Military engineering schools, its history (as
After 1917, numerous transformations of Nikolaevsky Engineering Academy and Engineering school were undertaken (but Higher learning institution survived). It was renamed as the Military-Engineering Academy, and then as Military-Technical Academy. But in 1932 followed the unsuccessful attempt of moving the Engineering Faculty to Moscow; it was completed later as the Sea Faculty returned to
There were destructive consequences of some degradation for the pedagogical and scientific forces of Saint Petersburg High School of Military Engineers, but it was successfully corrected only due to the donor help of
Also, the academician Boris Galerkin took a general's uniform in 1939, as the head of VITU's structural mechanics department became a lieutenant general. In September 1960, VITU university was called the Order of the Red Banner Higher Military Engineering School and became part of the construction troops.[11] In 1974, the university was named after A.N. Komarovsky.[11] In 1993, the university was reformed as the Military Engineering-Technical Institute, which received its present-day name in 1997, after as did merger the Pushkin Higher Military Engineering Construction School.[13]
The Second World War
Military Engineering-Technical University directly took part in World War II. The graduating students of the university fought heroically at all fronts of that war. They showed spiritual force and quality of engineering competence. The forts and numerous fortifications buildings was established by the graduating students of university, all of it played a vital part in defending (for example Brest Fortress). So unique Krasnaya Gorka fort was constructed by the graduating students of VITU at the beginning of the 20th century with the installation of 12-inch guns in concrete casemates. The system of forts played a key part in the Siege of Leningrad. The VITU's graduating students by the commanders of Krasnaya Gorka fort did to finally stopped the offensive of fascists already in 1941. During the Siege of Leningrad, Boris Galerkin was the head of the city engineering defence department experts group. Also, he joined the military engineering commission of the Academy of Sciences. Hard non-stop work was undermining his health. Not long after the Victory, in July 1945, Galerkin died. Leonid Kantorovich was the professor of the VITU of the Navy, and there he was in charge of safety on the Road of Life; for his feat and courage he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War.[14]
Traditions of Saint Petersburg High School of Military Engineers
Alumni and faculty
In total, the University prepared more than 45,000 military engineers. Among its alumni and faculty are:
- Leonid Artamonov, a Russian general, geographer and traveler, military adviser of Menelik II, as one of Russian officers of volunteers was attached to the forces of Ras Tessema (wrote: «Through Ethiopia to the White Nile»)
- ZhukovskyAir Force Engineering Academy
- Konstantin Velichko (Russian: Величко, Константин Иванович), — a Russian/Soviet general military engineer, professor of fortification and author of numerous fortifications projects, for example the Red hill fort
- Boris Galerkin, a Russian/Soviet mathematician and engineer
- Dmitry Grigorovich, a Russian writer
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian writer and essayist
- counterrevolution
- Mauthausen
- Leonid Kapitsa (Russian: Капица, Леонид Петрович), was father for nobel laureate Pyotr Kapitsa, a Russian general military engineer, oversaw Kronstadt's forts construction
- Governor-General of Russian Turkestan
- Amanullah Jahanbani, an Iranian senior general and senator.
- Nobel Prize in Economics, a Russian mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources
- Lüshunkou) during the Russo-Japanese War
- Vladimir Korguzalov (Russian: Коргузалов, Владимир Леонидович), a Hero of the Soviet Union chief of engineers, major of Guard troops of 47th army of Voronezh front
- Alexander Kvist (Russian: Квист, Александр Ильич), a Russian military engineer of fortification
- César Cui, an army officer and a teacher of fortifications, as well as a composer and music critic, known as a member of The Five, the group of Russian composers under the leadership of Mily Balakirev dedicated to the production of a specifically Russian type of music
- amateur astronomer. He is best known as the inventor of the Maksutov telescope.
- Volunteer army during the Russian Civil War.
- Vladimir May-Mayevsky, a Russian army general and one of the leaders of the counterrevolutionary White movement during the Russian Civil War
- Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist and inventor, credited as the creator of the periodic table of elements
- Boris Mozhaev (Russian: Можаев, Борис Андреевич), a Russian writer and friend Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856–1929)
- Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist who is considered to be a disciple of Leonhard Eulerand one of the leading mathematicians of Imperial Russia
- Nicholas Petin (Russian: Петин, Николай Николаевич), a Red Army general, chief of engineers of Red Army
- Alexei Polivanov, a Russian military figure
- physiologist, named by Ivan Pavlov as "The Father of Russian physiology", who authored Reflexes of the Brain, introducing electrophysiology and neurophysiology into laboratories and teaching of medicine
- Eduard Totleben, a military engineer and Imperial Russian Army general who was in charge of fortification and sapping work during a number of important Russian military campaigns
- Baron German descent, known for his research of languages and ethnography of peoples of Caucasus.
- electrical engineer, the inventor of the Yablochkov candle (a type of electric carbon arc lamp) and a businessman
- Shuliachenko Aleksey Romanovich (Russian: Шуляченко, Алексей Романович), a Russian engineer, general and chemist, known as the "grandfather of the Russian Cement"
- Golovin Kharlampiy Sergeevich (Russian: Головин, Харлампий Сергеевич), a rector of Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology
- Nestor Buinitsky (Russian: Буйницкий, Нестор Алоизиевич), a Russian engineer, professor of fortification and lieutenant general.
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External links
- Anna Dostoyevskaya "Flashbacks". M.: Artistic literature. 1981 [1925]. Archived from the originalon October 20, 2010.
- "St.Petersburg Military Engineering University".
- "The Russian Federation Ministry of Defence Higher Military Schools". Archived from the original on February 21, 2010. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
- "Military Engineering-Technical University". Archived from the original on July 19, 2009. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
- "Saint Petersburg Military Engineering-Technical University".
- "Military Engineering-Technical University".
- "Russian emperor's army".
- "Volkov. Russian officers".
- "Official Website of the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University".
- Мaksimovskiy, M. (1869). Historical essay of development the Main Engineering school of 1819–1869. St.Petersburg, Russia.
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