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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 
• 85 first-year students
• 390 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
• municipal transport facilities
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 six departments at the faculty:
• Bridges
• Tunnels and Subways
• Structural Mechanics
• Geology, Footings and Foundations
• Theoretical Mechanics
• Physics
The faculty employs 17 Doctors of Sciences, Professors; 45 Candidates of Sciences, Assistant Professors.
The faculty has trained 5,000 specialists.
Among the graduates are a Socialist Labor Hero, Lenin and State-Prize winners, honored builders of Russia and Ukraine, university rectors, assistant rectors and deans, honored scientists of Russia, doctors of sciences and professors, leaders of major design and construction enterprises, vice-governors, city mayors and deputy ministers, an honored sports coach and an honored arts worker and lots of others.
The faculty's pride is Valentin F. Solokhin, the only bridge builder in Russia whose name was entered in to the British Building Encyclopedia; his name was given to the Solar system small planet to commemorate an outstanding event: constructing a unique single support suspended bridge with a span length of 408 m in Surgut.
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