Petrovsky pr., 18  

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Историческая справка

One of the youngest bridges of Saint Petersburg which has become an inseparable passage between Petrograd Side and Vasilyevsky Island got its name in honour of Augustin Augustinovich Betancourt, the famous engineer of Spanish origin. Born on Tenerife, Augustin Jose Pedro del Carmen Domingo de Candelaria de Betancourt-y-Molina began his career back in Spain where he, after many years of studying design and engineering of bridges and roads, was rebuilding the country’s transport routes and developed the system of visual telegraphy. Civil disturbances that started happening in Spain made Betancourt leave the country. He was invited to work in Russia in 1808. 
Since the very moment of his arrival at Petersburg August took part in virtually all construction projects of state importance. Having started with transformation of the country’s oldest ordnance factory in Tula, he introduced and improved the machines of Aleksandrovskaya Manufactory, built the arcade of Nizhny Novgorod Fair, the Moscow Manezh, took part in construction of bridges over the Neva (Kamennoostrovsky, Isaakievsky and others), supervised the technical part of construction of St. Isaac’s Cathedral together with Auguste Montferrand, developed the scaffolding system for installation of the 600-tonne Aleksander Column, and participated in many other projects. The heritage of Augustin Augustinovich Betancourt was not solely material, he also made an important contribution to the development of engineer education. Thus, the Railway Engineer Corps Institute was established in Saint Petersburg in accordance with his project.

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