Nerovetsky, Alexander Innokentievich

Born in Cherkasy on March 17, 1884 in the family of a doctor . In 1901 he graduated from the Cherkasy Gymnasium with a gold medal and in the same year entered the University of Kiev at the Faculty of Mathematics, from where in the spring of 1902 he was expelled for participating in student unrest. In the fall of the same year, he passed the competitive exam at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute for the Civil Engineering Department, which he graduated in 1907 with a diploma of the 1st degree and the title of Civil Engineer.

In the years of the first five-year plans since 1922 he was engaged in the construction of industrial, mine and civil buildings and structures in the industrial areas of Donbass and Transnistria . He worked in senior positions in a number of large construction organizations in Ukraine. In 1925, A. I. Nerovetsky was appointed Technical Director and Chief Engineer of the Republican Association “Indbud”. Under his leadership, new effective building structures and products were developed and implemented. The most important result of his research was the introduction of high-speed construction methods. For the first time in the world, technical conditions have been developed for the production of construction and special works in the winter. He also headed Ukrchudbud, Pivdennomontazhbud, Ukrbudobednannya and others.

After the reconquest of Kiev in November 1943 by the Soviet troops, he took part in the work of the competent commission to determine the priority work to restore the city. He gave specific recommendations for strengthening building structures, as a result of which many residential buildings were saved for future operation.

In 1941, the innovative engineer was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR , and in 1945 - a full member of the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR . During his work at the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR, A. I. Nerovetsky headed the Editorial and Publishing Council, was elected head of the department of construction sciences and director of the institute of construction equipment. In addition, he led many other responsible structural elements of the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR. Subsequently, A. I. Nerovetsky was elected vice-president of the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR.

For his services to the Fatherland, the civil engineer was awarded honorary awards, such as the Order of the Badge of Honor and the medal For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

Under the leadership of Nerovetsky, the following structures were completed:

• Construction of the Lgovsky junction of the Moscow-Voronezh and North-Donets railways (1911-1912)
• The construction of five large caisson bridges across the Desna in Chernigov and near the village of Vitemli, across the Seversky Donets , across the Kumu and Pidkumok rivers , as well as 20 medium and small railway bridges and pipes, five wooden bridges, a total of 30 different bridges
• Over 100 km of railway lines, 5 railway stations and stations were built.

He participated in the construction and reconstruction of large industrial facilities in Ukraine:

• Reconstruction of the Dnepropetrovsk , Dneprodzerzhinsky , Enakievsky , Voroshilovsky and Makeevsky metallurgical plants, Odessa and Novobavarsky textile factories;
• Construction of the Dnepropetrovsk, Dneprodzerzhinsky, Makievsky, Voroshilovsky coke plants, Nikopol pipe rolling, turbine generator, machine tool, Kramatorsky machine-building, Kiev film factory , Voroshilovograd steam-exciting, Panteleymonovsky refractory, Kiev Veselopodnoy shoe factory, shoe factory and shoe factory, 15 clinics and hospitals, the Central Post Office, tractor, turbine and machine tool factories, club builders Ha kove , a large number of houses;

He headed the department of construction production at the Ukrainian Industrial Academy (1931-1934), the Kharkov Civil Engineering Institute (1934-1941), the Magnitogorsk Mining and Metallurgical Institute (1942-1944), and the Kiev Civil Engineering Institute (1944-1950).

Publications

• "Fundamentals of building production", t. 1, Kharkov - Kiev. 1934;
• "High-speed construction", 1939;
• "Construction Production", 1941;
• "The task of the industrialization of housing in Ukraine", 1948;
• "Fundamentals of the organization and economics of construction", part 1, Kiev - Lviv, 1948 and several others.

In total, more than 300 scientific papers and textbooks.

• Nerovetsky, Alexander Innokentievich