Graduates of the Department of Transport Systems and Road and Bridge Construction at the SPbGASU Faculty of Automobile and Road Building, specializing in "Construction of unique buildings and structures. Construction of bridges and tunnels," have won the St Petersburg Government Prize for completing their final qualifying works on assignment from the executive authorities.

The works were presented at the "Students for the City" exhibition, which was held as part of the annual St Petersburg Congress "Professional Education, Science, and Innovation in the 21st Century" at the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Center. The congress is held jointly with the St Petersburg International Science and Education Fair under the auspices of the Committee for Science and Higher Education of the St Petersburg Government.

The winners of the competition from SPbGASU were:

• Margarita Ivanova with her final qualifying work "Project for the overhaul of the Officer Bridge in Sestroretsk". Supervisor - PhD of Engineering Sciences, Associate Professor Evgeny Kornylyev;

• Tatiana Rebenchuk with the work “Project of a standard bridge made of innovative materials”. Supervisor – Senior Lecturer Dmitry Yaroshutin.

The award ceremony was conducted by Irina Ganus, First Deputy Chair of the Committee on Science and Higher Education, and Igor Maksimtsev, member of the Presidium of the Council of Universities Rectors of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region and Rector of the St Petersburg State University of Economics.

All awarded laureates received prizes, diplomas, and collections of scientific articles published based on the results of research conducted when writing the final qualifying works.