Zhuravskii Dmitri Ivanovich

(1821 - 1891)
In 1838, Mr.. enrolled in the Institute of Communications. Released in 1840, Zhuravskii was appointed to the surveys for the construction of the railroad between St. Petersburg and Moscow. Upon completion of these works, Zhuravskaya was instructed to draft a bridge over which, and has worked for several years. Then he was entrusted with the construction poluverstovogo Verebinskogo bridge, which gave him fame. The spring of 1855, Mr.. it was sent to survey a railroad from Moscow to the Eagle, and on his return to St. Petersburg laid on him the restructuring of the spire of the Cathedral of Peter and Paul Fortress. In 1869, Mr.. Zhuravskii sent to study the railways in the North American United States. On his return he was appointed a member of the board of management of the main public Russian Railways. In addition he was a few years, the vice-president of the society and at the same time, the chairman of the building department of the Imperial Technical Society and worked in his "Notes". In 1873, Mr.. participated as a representative of the Ministry of Railways in the International Statistical Congress in St. Petersburg and was elected vice-chairman of business statistics. Then, in 1877. appointed Director of the Department of Railways and was in his superintendence Technical Inspectorate Committee. In the Journal of the Ministry of Railways, "Russian Messenger", "Contemporary," and other magazines have published quite a few of his articles on Rail case. The writing is on the bridges on the diagonal system Hau, on which he worked for about ten years, was awarded the Demidov Prize.