Background
Nikolai Konstantinovich Proskuryakov was born on December 29, 1900 in Vologda.
Nikolai Konstantinovich Proskuryakov was born on December 29, 1900 in Vologda.
In 1918, Nikolai Proskuryakov graduated from the gymnasium with a gold medal and entered the Petrograd Institute of Railway Engineers, founded by Nicholas I.
Soon 17-year-old Nikolai was transfered to Moscow and placed first in Taganskaya, then - in Butyrskaya prison, where he was in one cell with prominent officials. His mother's visit to F.E. Dzerzhinsky is what saved him from any further misadventures.
From 1919 to 1920, after graduating from short-term technical courses, he served in the 9th Military Building Frontier of the 6th Army on the Northern Front. In 1921, Nikolai Proskuryakov became a student of the Petrograd Institute of Railway Engineers.
Immediately after graduating from the institute in 1928, Nikolay worked as an engineer for a laboratory for testing materials, a producer of works on basic hydraulic structures, and a senior producer of work on the construction of bridges across the Dnieper at the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Stations. The non-partisan Nikolai Konstantinovich, having worked only a few years, becomes the chief of construction works of the Western Energy Ring of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station.
In 1933-1936, as the head of the design bureau for the organization of construction works, Nikolai Konstantinovich took part in the construction of a hydroelectric power station on the Kama River near Perm. At the same time he was a professor of the department "Mosty" at the Leningrad Highway Institute.
On the basis of the construction of the Krasnokholmsky bridges, the Mostostroy Trust was created in the system of road and bridge management of the Moscow City Executive Committee. Nikolai Konstantinovich was appointed the head of this organization and before the war he supervised the construction of six bridges on the Yauza River.
In 1943 Nikolai Konstantinovich was appointed the chief engineer of the military brigade No. 1 of the Main Road Administration of the Red Army and sent to the First Ukrainian Front. In February 1944, he was appointed the head of the Department for the restoration of Khreshchatyk in the city of Kiev, and in 1945 – the deputy Chairman of the Kyiv City Executive Committee for Construction. In 1948 he was appointed the head of the Department for the Restoration of the Hero City of Sevastopol under the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and before that he worked for a year as Deputy Minister of Communal Services of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
In 1952, Nikolai Konstantinovich returned to Moscow, having been appointed head of the Department of the Industry of Construction Materials and Parts of the Moscow City Executive Committee. In 1955 he was appointed a member of the State Construction Committee of the USSR, head of the department of concrete and reinforced concrete structures and editor-in-chief of the magazine "Concrete and Reinforced Concrete" (until 1971)
In 1971-1972, Nikolai Konstantinovich worked as a consultant adviser to the head of the department "Glavmospromstroimaterialy", and the last years of his life was closely connected with the Fund of Veterans-builders of Moscow.
In 1955 Nikolai Konstantinovich was appointed a member of the State Construction Committee of the USSR.
Konstantin Nikolaevich was a State Counselor and a teacher in the Alexander I Men's Classical Gymnasium.
Olga Kashkina-Fadeyeva was the graduate of the biological faculty of the Leningrad State University, specializing in genetics.
Konstantin Nikolaevich is a professor, lecturer at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, specializes in nuclear power safety.
Mikhail Nikolayevich is a builder, worked in Gosstroy.
Alexey is a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences.