Pshenitsky, Andrei (Andrzej) Pavlovich

Born November 29 ( December 10 ) in 1869 in Pabianice . His father Pavel Pshenitsky was the owner of a small farm. He studied first in Pabianice, then in Piotrków Trybunalski . After graduating from high school with a gold medal, Pshenitsky continued his studies in St. Petersburg. In 1898 he graduated from the Institute of Communications .

Immediately after graduation, he began working in the Department of Management of City Bridges in St. Petersburg, where he worked - with some interruptions - until 1919. Starting his career as a design engineer, Pshenitsky became the chief engineer. During his work in this position, Andrei Pavlovich took part in the design, construction and reconstruction of 43 bridges - including 11 wooden, 5 stone bridges and 27 steel bridges (including 4 movable bridges) ^[1] .

Pshenitsky was among the engineers who participated in the design and construction of the Trinity Bridge across the Neva .

He took an active part in the life of the parish of St. Catherine in St. Petersburg. In 1905 he was elected as a synodic of the parish ^[2] . With the participation of Pshenitsky, three Polish schools were opened in St. Petersburg ^[3] .

Divorced Palace Bridge

In 1908, Andrzej Pshenitsky won an international competition for the design of the Palace Bridge in St. Petersburg.

Together with Professor N. A. Belelyubsky, he developed projects for bridges across the Volga River near Kazan (1911–1913) and near Simbirsk (1913–1916), a bridge over Msta in Borovichi .

For his work “The use of three-hinged arches in movable bridges,” based on the concept of a drawbridge of the Palace Bridge , the board of the Institute of Engineers of the Ways of Communication assigned him the title of adjunct. At the Institute, Pshenitsky completed all degrees - from assistant department of bridges (1901), lecturer (1908) to professor (1916).

In 1915, he became head of the department of bridges at the Women's Polytechnic Institute, and in 1916 - the department at the Institute of Civil Engineers .

In 1919, the Council of the Institute of Engineers of Railways awarded Andrei Pavlovich with a gold medal. LF Nikolai , awarded once every 10 years ^[3] .

At the end of 1919, he went to Estonia , where, until 1921, he was engaged in restoring the bridges destroyed during the war and designed a bridge project 110 m across the river. Narova in Narva . He taught at the bridges department of the Riga Technical University .

After the end of the Soviet-Polish war , in 1921, Pshenitsky arrived in Warsaw . In April 1921, he headed the department for the construction of bridges at the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute and headed it until the beginning of the war in 1939. In the years 1923-1929. Andrzej Pshenitsky served as dean of the faculty of civil engineering, and in the period from 1929 to 1932. was the rector of the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute. In 1938, the Council of the Institute awarded him an honorary doctorate. Pshenitsky also taught the course of wooden bridges at the Officer School of Sappers, and since 1936 at the Military Engineering College.

A.P. Pshenitsky organized his own design office. In the interwar period, he developed a number of large innovative and steel structures. In 1932, construction of the in Warsaw, in the design of which Andrzej Pshenitsky participated. It was the largest construction of the interwar period in Poland - the total weight of steel was 4,630 tons, and the area of ​​the object was 2.5 hectares ^[4] .

In 1936, according to his project, the first in Poland welded railway bridge across the Drventsu River on the Torun - Sierpc railway line was built ^[4] . In 1938, the railway-automobile in Płock (at the time of construction - the longest bridge in Poland).

From 1923 he was a full member of the Academy of Technical Sciences in Warsaw, was a consultant at the Ministry of Public Works, the Ministry of Railways, and K Rudzki & S. From 1934 to 1939 A. Pshenitsky served as president of the Polish Association of Civil Engineers.

He was awarded the Cross of the Commander of the Order of the Renaissance of Poland and the Cross of the Commander of the Order of Leopold I ^[5] .

A.P. Pshenitsky died in Warsaw on August 5, 1941 . He was buried at Warsaw cemetery.

The street in the Warsaw district of Mokotów is named after Pshenitsky.

• Iron Bridges (1928)
• The course of the construction of bridges (1938)
• Wooden bridges (1938)
• Riveted steel bridges (1954, published posthumously).

• Troitsky Bridge across the Neva River in St. Petersburg (1903)
• bridge over the river Msta in Borovichi (1905)
• Palace Bridge across the Neva River in St. Petersburg (1912–1916)
• railway bridge across the Volga near Kazan (1911–1913)
• railway bridge across the Volga near Simbirsk (1913—1916)
• railway bridge over the river. Narva in Narva
• 123-meter mast radio tower in Bemovo near Warsaw (1923)
• Sandomir railway bridge (1927)
• railway bridge over the river. Brda (1927)
• in Warsaw (1932-1939)
• hangars of the airport in Warsaw (1933)
• reconstruction of the Solvay plant near Yaroslavtsy ^[6]
• highway bridge over the river. Neman in Grodno (1934)
• Pilsudski Bridge over the Vistula in Krakow (1934)
• railway bridge over the Drventsu River (1936)
• Road across the Vistula in Wloclawek (1937)
• rail-road across the Vistula in Plock (1938)

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  The adjustable span of the Palace Bridge in St. Petersburg

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  Panteleimonovsky Bridge in St. Petersburg

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  Pilsudski Bridge in Krakow

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  Bridge of the Legions of Pilsudski in Plock

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  bridge in Borovichi

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• Newspaper of the Polish Culture Society Głos znad Pregoły No. 8-9 2002 (Polish)
• Bulletin of the Municipality of Lodz Voivodeship March 2009 (not available link) (Polish)