ABSTRACT
The legacy of A. Betancourt can be traced not only in the monuments of construction art that he left behind, and not only in the machines he invented and built. The authors of the article seek to demonstrate that the impetus given by Betancourt to the development of the construction business continued to operate after his death. This was facilitated by the formation and development of the Russian engineering school, which we owe in many respects to this outstanding son of the Spanish people and a Russian statesman, as well as the work of this man at the head of the construction department – the Committee of buildings and hydraulic works. In the article, to confirm this thesis, two examples are given, two very different monuments. One of them is a fortification that can withstand any artillery of its time. The other is a wooden theater, miraculously preserved in the fire of wars and revolutions. They are united only by one circumstance: the solution of technical problems in each of them did not do without the involvement of the knowledge and technologies that the domestic construction art owes to Betancourt. To this day, his legacy remains the Russian engineering school.
