Abdulla Mangushev, 25 years oldFuture associate professor at LISI (now SPbGASU) Abdulla Mangushev had high hopes for 1941. He graduated from Leningrad State University with a degree in Cartography and surveyor courses at the Geodetic Faculty of the Military Engineering Academy. As a student, he took part in the Kamchatka expedition of the Hydrographic Directorate of the Navy as a surveyor of the geodetic party. However, the Great Patriotic War interrupted all the plans of the young specialist for several years and left a harsh imprint on his fate: four years at the front and the loss of his entire family in besieged Leningrad.
Abdulla Mangushev was born in Kharkov, but then his family moved to Leningrad. In September 1941 he was called up to the front. He went through the entire war as part of a special engineering brigade of the 2nd Belorussian Front. In 1943 he completed advanced training courses for command staff of engineering troops. He met Victory in Berlin, but returned to his hometown only in 1948, having completed his service with the rank of major. Post-war Leningrad greeted the soldier lonely: during the siege of 1942, his father and brother died one after another. So a front-line soldier, having lost his mother before the war, lost his entire family.
After the military service, Abdulla Mangushev began teaching at the Military Academy of Logistics and Transport. In 1957, he successfully defended his dissertation on a topic relevant to the railway troops - “Study of the accuracy and methods of geodetic work in the restoration of railway tunnels.” In 1958 he was awarded the academic degree of PhD of Engineering Sciences. By that time, he had already written 11 scientific and educational works. In the next three years, he became the author of technical projects and reports on topographic and geodetic works carried out by the Lengiprogor Institute.
From 1 September, 1961 to 1989, Abdulla Abdurakhmanovich worked at LISI (now SPbGASU) as an associate professor, head of the Department of Geodesy, deputy dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, and headed geodetic internship. He made presentations at scientific conferences of the institute, which aroused keen interest in the discussion and were highly appreciated for the results of industrial research.
Awarded two Orders of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree, the Order of the Red Star, medals “For Military Merit”, “For Courage”, “For the Liberation of Warsaw”, “For the Capture of Berlin” and others.
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