Lidya Kondratyeva, DSc in Engineering, Professor at the SPbGASU Department of Geotechnics, was elected as an Honorary Professor of Henan University of Urban Construction (HUUC) in Pingdingshan, China, where she currently teaches.

Lidya Nikitovna has been working at SPbGASU since 2004. From 2004 to 2006, she was the Vice-Rector for Educational work, from 2008 to 2015 - the Head of the Department of Structural Mechanics, then she became a Professor at the Department of Geotechnics. From 2006 to 2014, she served as the academic secretary of the University Academic Council.

She is a member of two dissertation councils: the first one is on structural mechanics, building structures, buildings and constructions; the second one is on foundations engineering, underground structures. She worked for a long time in the dissertation council on architecture. She was the scientific secretary of the first of the three named councils.

Published more than 70 scientific and educational works.

For her conscientious work, Lidya Kondratyeva has been repeatedly awarded university certificates. In 2005, she received gratitude from the Vice-Governor of St Petersburg for many years of conscientious work and personal contribution to the development of the city's construction industry, and was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. In 2012, she received the title of "Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation".

Henan University of Urban Construction is one of the top 500 universities in China (according to the Shanghai Ranking). The university was founded in 1983. It is the only university in the field of civil engineering and urban development in Henan Province and one of two Chinese universities that train specialists in the field of urban engineering. In 2022, a cooperation agreement was signed between SPbGASU and HUUC.

We wish Lidya Nikitovna further creative and pedagogical success!