Bridges and Tunnels

Established in 1932. The first faculty Cief (Dean) was K. N. Andreyev. 35 graduates were qualified as engineers in bridges and tunnels construction in 1935.

Faculty Today
• 95 first-year students
• 435 full-time students
• 19 specialist classrooms and laboratories
There are display classrooms (Structural and Theoretical Mechanics Department), a display lecture room named after Prof. K.K. Yakobson, training rooms for practical classes in bridges, tunnels and subways engineering, laboratories for studying geology, soil mechanics, strength of materials and physics.

The faculty trains specialists in the following majors:
Bridges and transport tunnels with specialization in
• bridges
• transport tunnels and subways

The faculty trains transport engineers, broad specialists in the field of designing, constructing and maintaining bridges and overbridges, viaducts, tunnels and subways.

Main research-and-production trends:
• designing, constructing and maintaining bridges and overbridges, viaducts, tunnels and subways
• research in man-made structures reliability and durability
• introduction of automated system for man-made structure maintenance and repair work
• research in tunnels and subways maintenance in severe climatic zones
• developing techniques for calculating structure strength and reliability, including the ones based on optical methods.

There are five departments at the faculty:
• Bridges
• Geotechnics, Tunnels and Subways
• Structural Mechanics
• Theoretical Mechanics
• Physics

The faculty employs 17 Doctors of Sciences, Professors; 45 Candidates of Sciences, Assistant Professors.

On December 21, 2017, the educational program of the St. Petersburg State University of Railway Transport "Construction of railways, bridges and transport tunnels" in accordance with the specialization "Bridges" successfully passed international accreditation of the Association of Engineering Education of Russia, which is a member of leading international organizations and agreements (Washington Accord, ENAEE, SEFI, APQN).

Following the results of accreditation STU received a certificate in accordance with these criteria of the European quality mark of engineering education EUR-ACE® Label. The program was registered in the international registers ENAEE (European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education).

This certificate confirms that the educational program of our university meets the requirements of Washington Accord.