2025 Prize Laureates
Representatives of the Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering have been awarded the I.A. Grishmanov Prize, a prestigious industry award given to specialists for significant contributions to the development of science, technology, and professional education in the building materials and construction industry. The prize is awarded by the Russian Engineering Academy and is named after Ivan Aleksandrovich Grishmanov, a graduate of the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute (now SPbGASU) and the USSR Minister of the Building Materials Industry from 1965 to 1979.
The 2025 award winners included Irina Aubakirova, Associate Professor at the SPbGASU Department of Technology of Construction Materials and Metrology, Anna Grishina, Associate Professor at the SPbGASU Department of Technology of Construction Materials and Metrology, and Andrey Egorov, Professor at the SPbGASU Department of Construction Technology.
Irina Utarbaevna Aubakirova, PhD of Engineering Sciences, is a renowned specialist in the production and quality management of building materials. Her primary research focuses on developing methods for nanostructural modification of building composites and improving quality control systems for construction products.
Irina Aubakirova She participated in the development of technologies for the use of nanoadditives in concrete mixtures, ranging from microadditives of carbon fulleroid particles to nanofibrillar nanocellulose. Nanomodified concrete mixtures created using these technologies have been introduced into industrial production and used in the construction of major facilities, including the port terminal in Ust-Luga, Leningrad Oblast, the Ring Road and Western High-Speed Diameter of St Petersburg, and energy infrastructure and transport facilities in St Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast.
Irina Utarbaevna also participated in the development of national standards for dry cement-based building mixes. For 35 years, she has successfully combined her research and teaching with her work as Deputy Head of the Testing Center at St Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, providing consulting and methodological support to companies in the construction industry.
The author of more than 120 scientific and educational works, and the head of the master's degree program in Standardization and Metrology, Irina Utarbaevna makes a significant contribution to the development of construction science and the training of the industry specialists.
Anna Nikolaevna Grishina, PhD of Engineering Sciences, conducts research in the field of synthesis and structure management of silicate building materials. Since 2005, her research has focused on the creation of nano- and micro-sized modifiers for mineral binders. Anna Grishina proposed a mechanism for synthesizing a nanomodifier containing two types of nanoparticles, which was confirmed by experimental studies. The developed materials enable effective structure management of building composites and enhance their performance characteristics.
Anna Grishina The use of the developed nanomodifiers has increased the strength of lightweight concrete with glass spheres and created asphalt concrete with increased rutting resistance. Radiation-protective and fungicidal building materials have been developed using these nanomodifiers. The finishing solutions have been used, in particular, in equipping X-ray rooms in medical facilities.
Anna Nikolaevna is the director and executor of several research projects, including grants from the President of the Russian Federation and research supported by the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences. Her research has resulted in the publication of over 120 scientific papers, including articles in leading Russian and international scientific journals, a monograph, patents for inventions, and textbooks.
Andrey Nikolaevich Egorov is a DSc in Economics, a PhD of Engineering Sciences, and a Professor. He specializes in construction technology and organization, construction industry economics, development of Russia's Arctic territories, smart cities, and green construction. He is an advisor to the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, an expert in the international QS ranking of leading universities worldwide, and the author of research papers on the organizational and technological reliability of construction production, the sustainable operation of precast concrete plants, and the theory of large-scale emergency construction during emergency response.
The award is presented to Andrey Egorov (left) by Boris Gusev, President of the Russian Academy of Engineering, DSc in Engineering, and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include the development of construction technologies using 3D construction printers, the use of nanotechnology in construction, and promising developments related to building of lunar stations.
The scientist also devotes considerable attention to economics and urban planning: developing mechanisms to ensure affordable housing, renovating urban development in the second half of the 20th century, and developing concepts for smart and environmentally sustainable cities.
Andrey Nikolaevich is the author of more than 130 scientific and educational publications.