Gennady Badyin, a visiting professor at the SPbGASU Department of Construction Technology (CT), prepared a monograph, "Remembering Italy," describing the country's main landmarks as a result of a cultural studies expedition. Financial support for the book's publication was provided by Gennady Mikhailovich's former graduate student, Honored Builder of Russia Vyacheslav Zarenkov (his PhD dissertation, "Advanced technologies for residential complexes construction using combined structural systems," was prepared at the CT Department and successfully defended in 1999).
Gennady Mikhailovich Badyin was born in 1937 in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod). He is the holder of an Advanced Doctorate (Doctor of Science) in Engineering Sciences, a Professor, a two-time laureate of the Russian Federation Government Prize in Science and Technology (2006 and 2023), an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, and the author of over 200 scientific papers, textbooks, monographs, reference books, and teaching aids.
In 1959, he graduated from the Gorky Civil Engineering Institute, receiving a degree in civil engineering. His graduation project was titled "The Circus in Gorky," under the supervision of Professor B.B. Lampsi. He completed his pre-graduation internship in Leningrad, where he learned about the design of the Ciniselli Circus. In 1975, he was accepted to the Department of Construction Production at the Leningrad Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering (now SPbGASU), where he served as a professor, dean of international students, and head of the Department of CT.
Gennady Mikhailovich supervised 28 candidates of engineering sciences and seven doctors of engineering sciences. He worked in Cuba at the University of Santiago de Cuba, where he lectured and assisted in personnel training. He worked in Karelia as the head of a department at Petrozavodsk University, and was sent to Germany several times to the universities of Berlin, Leipzig, and Dresden. As the chairman of the state examination committee, he worked in Tver, Yakutsk, Kyzyl, and Rostov-on-Don.
