Brief biography of Melnikov

Pavel Petrovich Melnikov, Moscow, St. Petersburg, the first minister of railways, a monument on the square of three stations. Melnikov was born in Moscow in the year. He was educated in a private boarding house. Having graduated from him “with excellent effort”, he entered the Military Construction School at the Institute of Corps of Railways Engineers at once at the 3rd year.

Melnikov showed outstanding abilities to study, his surname was listed on the marble board of the most talented pupils. The young engineer was left for teaching work - to give a course of lectures on applied mechanics. In the year, his first scientific work dedicated to protective structures from floods on the West Dvina River saw the light. Three years later, he publishes the book "On Railways", which proves the expediency and possibility of building railway highways.

The work attracted the attention of the emperor and approved him in opinion to begin railway construction in Russia.

Melnikov was included in the commission designed to consider the draft Austrian specialist F. Gertner about the railway between St. Petersburg and the royal village. In the year of the beginning of the operation of the first railway, Melnikov leaves for Europe. Then a trip to America, the study of the technology for the construction of railways, bridges, various hydraulic structures.

For the excellent performance of the task, Emperor Nicholas I produces Melnikov in colonels. Melnikov’s scientific works laid the foundation for railway science, many theoretical developments that he managed to realize. Justifying the need for the development of railway transport, he wrote that the future of Russia is the future, the wealth and prosperity of Russia, ”but they are“ needed to ensure the safety of the Fatherland.

The emperor awarded the engineer by the Order of St. Vladimir of the II degree, and in the year the Imperial Academy of Sciences elected Melnikov to its honorary member. In the year, the Main Directorate of Railways and Public Buildings was transformed into the ministry. Ways of the message. He died in metro, who knew the former minister, engineer V. Panaev wrote: "Melnikov brilliantly passed the course of sciences, was one of the most educated people with a clear and quick mind, the first laid the foundation for the installation of railways, and for this, Russia can be proud of this person." The monument to P.

Melnikov was opened by G. Work of the sculptor Salavat Shcherbakov. Around the monument, in the very center of the Square of the "Three Stations", a square dedicated to the first minister of roads of communication is broken.