BAUMGART

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6.10.1894 Taschkent/RU - 17.5.1956 Leningrad/RU

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Vladimir Sergeevich Baumgart graduated as a civil engineer from the Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute shortly before the Russian Revolution. He began his professional career at the Volkov Dam close to the city of Novgorod, where he advanced to senior engineer within a short time. In parallel he was involved in hydraulic model experiments at the Leningrad Hydraulic Laboratory VNIIG for that scheme and thus experienced practice and theory in parallel. In 1926 Baumgart was appointed senior scientist at the Leningrad Melioration Institute, and thus took responsibility for various dam designs in the South of the country. At about the same time, he was also occupied with irrigation works in the deserts of Central Asia, such as for the Murgab plain and the Alhan-Churt plane in the Northern Caucasus. Baumgart was assigned in 1929 a Member of the Supreme Council of the Soviet water section Gosplan where important decisions were taken towards future water planning. In 1930 Baumgart was asked to design the Don water supply project.

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A Lecturer on dam design from 1928 at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, Baumgart was appointed professor there in 1930 and in parallel co-chaired VNIIG from 1931 to 1941. After the irrigation projects in the Caucasus were completed, Baumgart's attention turned to hydraulic problems in the Baltic Sea. He took over as VNIIG director from 1943, yet shortly later turned ill and thus retired from all his positions in the late 1940s. He spent the rest of his professional life with the advancement of methods for light material dam construction for which simpler foundation techniques could be applied. Baumgart was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Sign of Honor and received several war decorations for his active participation in World War II.

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_{Anonymous (1957). Baumgart, Vladimir Sergeevich. Izvestiya VNIIG 57: 201-204. P}

_{USSR National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (1985). History of irrigation, drainage, flood control and river engineering. International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage ICID: New Delhi.}