On 7 October, Sergey Dmitrievich Mityagin—an alumnus of our university, Honored Architect of Russia, Doctor of Architecture, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS), and board member of the Union of Architects of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region—celebrated his 80th birthday.
After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture at the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering (now the Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering) in 1970, he joined Lenproekt, where he participated in the design of residential developments along Veteranov and Stachek Avenues. It was then that the primary focus of his future work—urban planning—was established.
Sergey MityaginOver time, the scope of his professional undertakings expanded: from a single city block to an entire city, and from a city to a whole region. His projects include master plans for Krasnodar, Surgut, Nefteyugansk, Cherepovets, Nadym, Ust-Ilimsk, and Salavat, as well as territorial planning for the Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrugs, Altai Krai, and the Arkhangelsk and Yaroslavl regions. His native St Petersburg has always held a special place in his professional career.
Sergey Dmitrievich dedicated over half a century to architectural practice and issues of spatial development, while also engaging in research and teaching at our university, where he trained hundreds of specialists. He was awarded the RAACS Gold Medal and the A. V. Kuzmin Medal of the RAACS.
Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering congratulates Sergey Dmitrievich and, in appreciation of his many years of fruitful work, wishes him good health, creative success, and well-being.