Delvig Andrei Ivanovich (13 (25) .03.1813 – 20.01 (01.02) .1887), Russian engineer, Lieutenant-General Corps of Engineers (1868), diarist. A cousin of the poet A. Delvig. In 1832 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Institute of Communications. Delvig participated in the technical direction and organization of construction of many engineering structures, including water supply in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, several railroads and highways, ferries and in the Caucasus mountains, and others carried out under his supervision in 1853-58 for the reconstruction of pipe Mytischinskogo much improved supply of Moscow. In 1861-71 held several senior posts in the Ministry of Communications, introduced preserved to this day on the railroad division of the "service". Since 1871, Senator. On his initiative, created technical railway school. Delvig – one of organizers and first chairman (1867-70) Russian technical society. Memoirs Delvig contain memories of Alexander Pushkin, AA Delvig, NV Gogol, P. J. Chaadayev, AI Herzen and others Demidov Prize. Op.: A Guide to the device aqueducts, Moscow, 1856; Half a century of Russian lives. Memoirs. 1820-1870, v. 1 – 2, M. – L., 1930. Lit.: Falkowski, NI, History of water supply in Russia, Moscow – Leningrad, 1947.

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