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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 fi rst 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