Eugene Paton (ex.4a), p.169)

Eugene Paton was born in Moscow in 1870.

His father was Russian Consul in Nice, France.

 Paton graduated from Dresden Medical Institute and later became a famous surgeon. 

Eugene Paton graduated from St Petersburg University and then had a project of the Dresden railway station.

 He got a degree of a railway engineer at Dresden Polytechnical Institute.

Paton was a founder of bridge-building.

 At the age of 60 he took up the electric welding.

He headed the construction of the first wooden bridge in Kyiv.

The bridge is 2000 metres long.

The name of Paton has been given to the bridge and to the Research Institute in St Petersburg.