Konstantin Mikhailovsky

Konstantin Yakovlevich Mikhailovsky (Russian: Константин Яковлевич Михайловский) (1834–1909) was a Russian engineer of Polish origin.

Mikhailovsky designed (with Nikolai Belelyubsky) the Alexander Railway Bridge across the Volga River near Syzran, the first bridge across the lower Volga and at the time (1880) the longest bridge in Europe.

Mikhailovsky also designed the Novomariinsky Canal and other canals of the Mariinsky Water System connecting the Volga with the Baltic Sea (1882–1886). He was chief of construction for the Samara–Ufa railway (1885), the Ufa–Chrysostom railway (1888), the Chrysostom–Chelyabinsk railway (1891), the Yekaterinburg–Chelyabinsk railway (1894), and many other projects.

Mikhailovsky was born into a noble family. His father was the Chernihiv nobleman Yakov Artemovich Mikhailovsky. He graduated from the First Cadet Corps, participated in the Crimean War, and was promoted second lieutenant in 1858.

For many years, Mikhailovsky worked on creating the modern infrastructure of Russian Empire needed for commerce such as the export of wheat to Europe (as in the case of the Mariinsky Water System) or the transportation of cargo and passengers to and from the western regions of Russia across Siberia to the Far East (as in the case of the Trans-Siberian Railway).

Mikhailovsky was an Actual Privy Councillor, a high civilian rank equivalent to full general or admiral.

Mikhailovsky was buried in the Saint Nicholas Cemetery in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg. The exact location of his grave has been lost.

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