The most important product of my life

Alumni of the Harbin Polytechnic Institute are marking ninety-five years this year since the day the educational institution commenced operations. The Institute, founded for training up specialists for work in the field of rail transport, not only had a large role in the development of Chinese industry, but also gave an education in engineering to a large number of Russian students who later left for different countries around the world. Victor Mikhailovich Ignatenko, president of the HPI engineers’ association in Sydney, was one of the last Russian students who studied at the civil engineering faculty at HPI and told us about how his study and later life went.

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