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From the Editorial Board. With the publication of the paper by Professor N.N. Maslov, the editorial board assumes that disclosure of the important stages in the development of domestic hydraulic construction and allied disciplines will be of interest to a wide circle of the technical-engineering community and will enable readers of the journal to evaluate more thoroughly the course taken by hydraulic engineering during the years of Soviet rule. Foreign specialists negated, e.g., the possibility of constructing high-head hydraulic structures on weak Svir'stroy soil. Soviet hydraulic engineers disproved this by successfully completing the Svir' hydroelectric power plants, and the priority in the matter of construction of similar structures on weak soils is theirs. The work of N. N. Maslov, who headed the geological construction section, played a major role in solving this problem, which was so important to our country. The studies examined in this paper, together with those of N. M. Gersevanov, V. A. Florin, N. A. Tsytovich, and other Soviet scientists, formed the basis for modern soil mechanics and contributed to the overall development and the possibility of construction under complex geological-engineering conditions.
Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 2, pp. 43–46, February, 1976.
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Maslov, N.N. The development of soil mechanics as a scientific and applied discipline associated with the construction of the lower Svir' hydroelectric plant. Hydrotechnical Construction 10, 177–181 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02406489
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02406489