Railway Construction

Established in 1932. This faculty gave start to the University history. Vladimir M. Zavadsky was the first Chief (Dean) of the faculty.

The first 33 graduates were qualified as track maintenance engineers in 1934.

Three more faculties - "Bridges and Tunnels", "Civil Engineering" and "Building and Road Machine" have been set up on the basis of the Railway Construction Faculty.

Faculty Today

• 170 first-year students
• 580 full-time students
• 5 specialist classrooms and laboratories
• Computer equipped classrooms, language laboratories and audio- and video devices
• Up-to-date geodesy device for receiving satellite information
• A training railway ground

Some modern well-equipped laboratories are available at the faculty: Permanent Way Design, Mechanized Track Tools and Geodesy.

Specialists are trained in two majors:

• Railway Construction, Track and Track Facilities.
• Highways and Airfields

The faculty trains broad profile specialists in surveying and constructing railways and highways, in railway main lines and industrial railway transport facilities.

About 60% of students have been sent for a University training course by track facilities enterprises, transport construction and highway maintenance organizations.

Main research-and-production trends:

• Railway, highway and airfield design, construction and maintenance
• Developing service technologies and railway track repairs
• Developing methods of calculation and working out the design of railway and highway elements

The faculty comprises four departments:

• Track and Track Facilities
• Railway and Highway Surveying and Design Engineering
• Engineering Geodesy
• Foreign languages

The faculty employs six Doctors of Sciences, Professors; 21 Candidates of Sciences, Assistant Professors.

The faculty has trained more than 7,000 specialists for railways, transport construction and track facilities, mainly in West Siberia and Krasnoyarsk Area. Among its graduates are two Chiefs of Railways (A.B. Vassyliev, Sakhalin, later Trans-Baikal Railway; A. Sh. Omarov, Alma-Ata Railway); Deputy Chiefs of Railway (P.J. Semeshko, Tomsk Railway, later West-Siberian Railway; N.A. Ponomarenko, Pridneprovsk Railway); several Deputy Ministers of different Ministries (V.F. Maltsev, the USSR Deputy Foreign Minister); K.V. Mokhortov, the USSR Deputy Minister of Transport Construction; P.A. Panfilov, the USSR Deputy Minister of Construction) as well as dozens of major Communist party workers, plant executives and famous scientists.