Agustín de Betancourt y Molina (Russian: Августин Августинович де Бетанкур, tr. Avgustin Avgustinovich de Betankur; French: Augustin Bétancourt)
1 February 1758 – 24 July 1824) was a prominent Spanish engineer, who worked in Spain, France and Russia. His work ranged from steam engines and balloons to structural engineering and urban planning. As an educator, Betancourt founded and managed the Spanish Corps of Civil Engineers and the Saint Petersburg Institute of Communications Engineers. As an urban planner and construction manager, Betancourt supervised planning and construction in Saint Petersburg, Kronstadt, Nizhny Novgorod and other Russian cities.
Scientific committee
Tamara Dzholdosheva
Scientific Committee Chairman
D.Sc., Prof., Director of the Graduate School of Masters, Musa Ryskulbekov Kyrgyz Economic University
Andrey Benin
D.Sc., Prof., Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University, Russia
Alexander Panychev
PhD, ass. prof., rector, Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University, Russia
Tamila Titova
D.Sc., Prof., vice-rector, Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University, Russia
Denis Ushakov
D.Sc., College of Hospitality Industry Management, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Parimal Chandra Biswas
D.Sc., Department of Management, Adamas University, Kolkata, India
Yingsak Vanpecth
DBA, Suan Sunandha Rajaphat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Mahachai Sattayathamrongthian
DBA, Faculty of International Business, Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Kannapat Kankaew
PhD, College of Hospitality Industry Management; Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Thailand
Hasan Mikail Elnur
Dr., ass. prof., Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey
Ai Tran Tran Huu
PhD, Faculty of Economics, Van Hien University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Muhammad Imtiaz Subhani
D.Sc., Business School and Director of Post Graduate Studies & Research, ILMA University, Pakistan
Anna Davtyan
D.Sc., International Career Program Department, Toyo Gakuen University, Japan
Irina Onyusheva
PhD, Stamford International University, Postgraduate School, Faculty of Business and Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
Hung Tran Van
PhD, Faculty of Economics, Vietnam National University of Forestry, Vietnam
Huong Le Thi Mai
PhD, Ho Chi Minh University of Technology and Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Galina Golovenchik
PhD, ass. prof., Belarusian State University, Belarus
Tatiana Podolskaya
PhD, ass. prof., Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, South Russia Institute of Management, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Anna Kovács
PhD, ass. prof., Óbuda University, Bánki Donát Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering, Hungary
Pisit Potjanajaruwit
D.Sc., ass. prof., Faculty of Management Science, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Joanna Rosak-Szyrocka
PhD, ass. prof., Faculty of Management, Czestochowa University of Technology, Institute of Production Engineering, Poland
Zoltán Nyikes
PhD, ass. prof., Department of Informatics, Milton Friedman University
Liubov Drotianko
D.Sc., Head of the Department of Philosophy of National Aviation University, Ukraine
Tuwanku Aria Auliandri
PhD, Head of Executive Learning Hub (ELH), a Non-Degree Program within the Post Graduate School of Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
Andrej Přívara
PhD, Department of Economic Theory, Faculty of National Economy at the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia
Julia Isakova
D.Sc., Faculty «Legal» DSTU, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Elmira Khairullina
D.Sc., Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Design and Software Engineering, Kazan National Research Technological University, Kazan, Russia
Łukasz Tomczyk
PhD, PhDr, Krakow Pedagogical University, Institute of Educational Sciences, Poland
Asya Berberyan
D.Sc., Professor, Head of the Department of Psychology, Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, Erevan, Armenia
Pär Anders Granhag
D.Sc., Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Henrique Sequeira
D.Sc., Professor of Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience, co-Head of DEEP Team, SCALab, CNRS 9193, Faculty Medicine, Sciences and Psychology, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 1, France
Robert Bernard
PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Valentina Dolgova
D.Sc., Professor at the South Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, Chelyabinsk, Russia
Veronika Kalmus
D.Sc., Professor (Full) of Sociology at the Institute of Social Studies.University of Tartu, Estonia
Alexander Dyatlov
D.Sc., Professor at the Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation
Boris Chetverushkin
D.Sc., Prof., Academician, Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Lubinda Haabazoka
PhD, Graduate School of Business, University of Zambia, Zambia
Jacek Szołtysek
PhD, Full professor, Head of Department University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
Liao Huchang
Ph.D, ass. Prof., Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Lazar Stošić
Ph.D, Faculty of Business and Law, University MB, Belgrade, Serbia
Muhammad Imtiaz Subhani
PhD, ILMA university, Karachi, Pakistan
Natalia Alekseeva
PhD, ass. prof., Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU)
Phong Tran Tuan
PhD, Vice-Director, Institute of Philosophy, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam
Duc Pham Van
PhD, Full professor, Institute of Philosophy, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
Olga Erchak
D.Sc., Prof., Head of the Department of Logistics and Price Policy, Belarus State Economic University (BSEU), Belarus
Konstantin Mamonov
D.Sc., Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy, Ukraine
Muzafer Saračević
PhD, Full professor at the Department of Computer science, University of Novi Pazar, Serbia
Irina Yankina
D.Sc., Professor at the Taganrog Institute of Management and Economics, Taganrog, Russia
Artur Atanesyan
D.Sc., Member of Political Science Association of Armenian, Advisor of the President, Armenian Philosophical Academy and International Academy for Philosophy, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
Antoaneta Getova
D.Sc., Professor at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Alexander Sukhinov
D.Sc., Prof., Academician, Dean of the Faculty of Physics, Mathematics, Informatics, Taganrog Institute named after A.P. Chekhov (a branch of the Rostov State University of Economics), Russia
Mikhail Yakobovsky
D.Sc., Prof., Academician, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and VMK MSU, Russia
Alexey Semyonov
D.Sc., Prof., Academician, Institute of Cybernetics and Educational Informatics. A. I. Berg FRC IU RAS, Russia
Mikhail Guzev
D.Sc., Prof., Academician, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Far Eastern State University, Russia
Vladimir Tishkin
D.Sc., Prof., Academician, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Russia
Nikolai Vatin
D.Sc., Prof., Chief Researcher, Advanced Digital Technologies Research Center, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Journal creator: «Magazine of Civil Engineering» (Scopus, Web of Science), Chief scientific editor of journals: «Construction of Unique Buildings and Structures» (RSCI Web of Science), «AlfaBuild».
Ning Bin
Dr., Prof., Vice President of China Urban Rail Transit Association, Executive director of the China Institute of automation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
Tatiana Pantina
D.Sc., Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Jacek Szołtysek
D.Sc., Prof., Head of Social Logistics Deparment, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
Hee-Seung Na
PhD, Head of Trans-Korean & Transcontinental Railway Research Department, Korea
Eun Chul Shin
PhD, Prof., Dean of the College of Urban Science, Incheon National University, Korea
Andrey Ivanov
Cand.Sc., Associate Prof., Dean of the Faculty of Shipbuilding, Hydraulic Engineering and Environmental Protection, Volga State University of Water Transport, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Mikhail Churin
Cand.Sc., Associate Prof., Dean of the Faculty of Navigation Volga State University of Water Transport, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Nebojša Bojovic
Dr., full Prof., Dean of the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Petar Mirosavljevic
Dr., full Prof., Vice Dean for Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Dalibor Pesic
Dr., Associate Prof., Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Alexandra Kostić-Ljubisavljevic
Dr., full Prof., Vice Dean of the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Andrey Afonin
Cand.Sc., Dean of the Faculty of the Arctic, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Alexander Boyarinov
Cand.Sc., Dean of the Faculty of Navigation and Communications, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Yuri Yezhov
Cand.Sc., Associate Prof., Director of the Institute Water transport, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Jaroslav Matuška
Ph.D., Faculty of Transport Engineering, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Alexey Grachev
Cand.Sc., associate Prof., Director of the Higher School of Transport, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Anatoly Popovich
D.Sc., Prof., Director of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Transport, Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Irina Mutylina
Cand.Sc., Associate Prof., Deputy Director of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Transport, Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Sergei Razvozov
D.Sc., Prof., Academician of the Russian Academy of Transport, Head of the Department of Maneuvering and Vessel Control Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Alexander Gorobtsov
Cand.Sc., Associate Prof., Head of the department navigation, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Vladimir Karetnikov
D.Sc., Associate Prof., Head of the Department of Navigation on Inland Waterways, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Gennady Gladkov
D.Sc., Prof., Head of the Department of Waterways and Water Surveys, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Sergei Shakhnov
D.Sc., Associate Prof., Department of Navigation on Inland Waterways, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Vladimir Loginovsky
D.Sc., Prof., Departments Navigation, Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Marco Pasetti
PhD, Prof., Università degli Studi di Brescia UNIBS, Italy
Julia Voronina
Cand.Sc., Associate Prof., Department of Waterways and Hydraulic Structures, Volga State University of Water Transport, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Alexander Sitnov
D.Sc., Prof., Head of the Department of Waterways and Hydraulic Structures, Volga State University of Water Transport, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Andrey Nichiporuk
Cand.Sc., Associate Prof., Department of Logistics and Marketing, Volga State University of Water Transport, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Yuri Urtmintsev
D.Sc., Prof., Head of the department of transport management, Volga State University of Water Transport, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Valery Plushchaev
D.Sc., Prof., Head of the Department of Radioelectronics,Volga State University of Water Transport, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Yuri Bazhankin
Cand.Sc., Associate Prof. of the Department of Navigation and Navigation Safety, Volga State University of Water Transport, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Vadim Tikhonov
D.Sc., Associate Prof., Department of Navigation and Navigation Safety, Volga State University of Water Transport, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Mikhail Churin
Cand.Sc., Department of Navigation and Navigation Safety, Volga State University of Water Transport, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Zdenka Popovic
Dr., full Prof., Department of roads, airports and railways, Institute of transportation and geotechnics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Goran Mladenovic
Dr., Associate Prof., Associate Prof. of the Department of roads, airports and railways, Institute of transportation and geotechnics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Dejan Gavran
Dr., Associate Prof., Department of roads, airports and railways, Institute of transportation and geotechnics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Selimir Lelovic
Dr., Associate Prof., Department of geotechnical engineering, Institute of transportation and geotechnics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Drazenko Glavic
Dr., full Prof., Faculty of Traffic and Transport Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Davor Vujanovic
Dr., full Prof., Faculty of Traffic and Transport Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Konstantin Manzhula
D.Sc., Prof., Higher School of Transport, Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Alexey Grachev
Cand.Sc., Associate Prof., Higher School of Transport, Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Albert Bashkarev
D.Sc., Prof., Prof. of the Higher School of Transport, Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Alexander Ashcheulov
D.Sc., Prof., Higher School of Transport, Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Jozef Melcer
Dr., Prof., University of Zilina, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak Republic
Viktor Lozhechko
D.Sc., Prof., Higher School of Transport, Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Sergei Sokolov
D.Sc., Prof., Prof. of the Higher School of Transport, Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Yuri S. Klochkov
D.Sc., associate Prof., Vice-Rector for Scientific and Organizational Activities, Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Saint-Petersburg, Russia