Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.
Volgograd, formerly Tsaritsyn (1589–1925), and Stalingrad (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of 859.4 square kilometres, with a population of over 1 million residents. Volgograd is the fifteenth-largest city in Russia, the second-largest city on the Southern Federal District, and the fourth-largest city on the Volga.
Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev was a Soviet sniper during World War II. Between 22 September 1942 and 19 October 1942, he killed 40 enemy soldiers. Between 10 October 1942 and 17 December 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, he killed 225 enemy soldiers.
Volgograd Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, located in the Volga region of Southern Russia. Its administrative center is Volgograd. The population of the oblast was 2,610,161 in the 2010 Census. Formerly known as Stalingrad Oblast, it was given its present name in 1961, when the city of Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd as part of de-Stalinization. Volgograd Oblast borders Rostov Oblast in the southwest, Voronezh Oblast in the northwest, Saratov Oblast in the north, Astrakhan Oblast and the Republic of Kalmykia in the southeast, and has an international border with Kazakhstan in the east. The two main rivers in European Russia, the Don and the Volga, run through the oblast and are connected by the Volga–Don Canal. Volgograd Oblast's strategic waterways have made it a popular route for shipping and for the generation of hydroelectricity.
The Bauman Moscow State Technical University, BMSTU, sometimes colloquially referred to as the Bauman School or Baumanka is a public technical university (Polytechnic) located in Moscow, Russia. Bauman University is the oldest and largest Russian technical university offering B.S., M.S. and PhD degrees in various engineering fields and applied sciences.
The Volgograd State Pedagogical University is one of the major pedagogical institutions in the Russian Federation. The university is located in Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad (Russia).
The Volgograd Tractor Plant, formerly the Dzerzhinskiy Tractor Factory or the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, is a heavy equipment factory located in Volgograd, Russia. It was once one of the largest tractor manufacturing enterprises in the USSR. It was a site of fierce fighting during World War II's Battle of Stalingrad.
South Ural State University (SUSU) in Chelyabinsk is one of the largest educational institutions in Russia. It is among the top-ten of the Russian universities according to the state rating of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, and the largest in Russia in terms of the number of undergraduates.
Volgograd International Airport is an airport located 15 km northwest of the city of Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, in Russia. It comprises a civilian airport built on top of an older military runway, now demolished. The terminal area parks 42 medium/large aircraft and 91 small aircraft.
The Volga Hydroelectric Station or Volga GES also known as the 22nd Congress of the CPSU Stalingrad/Volgograd Hydroelectric Power Station, is the largest hydroelectric station in Europe, and it is the last of the Volga-Kama Cascade of dams, immediately before the Volga River flows into the Caspian Sea. It was the largest powerstation in the world between 1960 and 1963. Today, it is operated by the electricity company RusHydro.
Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology (XUAT) is a joint venture between the People's Government of Shaanxi Province, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Education. "It is one of the key universities directly under the former Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, the national "Central and Western Universities Basic Capacity Building Project", the national "Key Discipline Project", the high level university in Shaanxi Province, the first batch of doctoral and master's degree universities in China. and bachelor's degree authorizing units, selected in the 111 Plan, the first batch of the National Cultivation Program for Excellent Engineer Education, the National Base for International Science and Technology Cooperation, the National Master of Engineering Graduate Education Innovation College, and the National Public Postgraduate Program for the Construction of High-level Universities. It is a multi-disciplinary university featuring civil engineering, environment and municipal administration, materials metallurgy and other related disciplines, with engineering and technology disciplines as the main subjects. In 1956, when the faculties and departments of higher education institutions were adjusted for the third time, the school was formed from the former Northeast Institute of Technology, Northwest Institute of Technology, Qingdao Institute of Technology and the Department of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Municipal Engineering of Sunan Institute of Technology, then named Xi'an Institute of Architectural Engineering. College of Architecture.In March 1994, approved by the former State Education Commission, the name was changed to Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology.The Graduate School was established in 2011. As of September 2019, the school Yanta, Cottage Campus and Huaqing Science and Education Industrial Park cover a total area of more than 4,300 acres; there are 20 colleges and 63 undergraduate majors; there are 9 post-doctoral mobile stations, 9 first-discipline doctoral points, 26 first-discipline master's points, and 16 master's degree categories; there are more than 2,800 teaching staff, including more than 1,700 full-time teachers and 3 full-time academicians; students More than 34,000 people.
The Motherland Calls is the compositional centre of the monument-ensemble "Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia. The statue is designed in the Soviet style of socialist realism. It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and structural engineer Nikolai Nikitin, and declared the tallest statue in the world in 1967. At 85 m (279 ft), it is the tallest statue in Europe, the tallest outside of Asia and the tallest statue of a woman in the world.
Volgograd State University is a public university and one of the leading institutions of higher education in Volgograd, Russia.
Kalachyovsky District is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-three in Volgograd Oblast, Russia. As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Kalachyovsky Municipal District. It is located in the south of the oblast. The area of the district is 4,200 square kilometers (1,600 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Kalach-na-Donu. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 58,524, with the population of Kalach-na-Donu accounting for 46.0% of that number.
Alevtina Viktorovna Aparina was a Russian politician and member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Volgograd, Russia.
Valery Samuilovich Shmukler is a Ukrainian engineer, an expert in the field of construction, reconstruction, the theory of structural systems, information technology, calculation and design of structures, methods of optimization and rationalization of the scientific theory of rationalization building constructions. He is an academician of the Academy of Construction of Ukraine (1999), doctor of technical sciences (1997), professor (2001), winner of the State Prize of Ukraine in Architecture (1995), Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology (2020), Honored Scientist of Ukraine (2015), emeritus professor of O. M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv (2014), chief of the department of building construction of O. M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv, a member of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures IASS (1980), a member of the American Concrete Institute (1997).
Aleksey Semenovich Chuyanov was a Soviet politician who served as the First Secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1938 to 1946.
Valery Igorevich Limarenko is a Russian politician. He is the current Governor of Sakhalin Oblast, a federal subject of Russia from 2018.
