V.N. Shimanovsky Ukrainian Institute of Steel Construction is a Ukrainian scientific research and design organization that specializes in the design and construction of bridges, towers, plants, stadiums and other structures in Ukraine, the former Soviet republics and other countries. The institute is run by the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction, and Communal Living of Ukraine of the Government of Ukraine. It is located in Kyiv. The institute has created television towers in Kyiv, St. Petersburg, Yerevan, Tbilisi, and Kharkiv, It has built plants in Algeria, Nigeria, India and Turkey. One of the institute's largest projects was the construction of the Paton Bridge over the Dnieper River in Kyiv, the first all-welded bridge in the world History Soviet era In December 1944, in what was then the Soviet Union, the Institute opened in Kyiv as special design bureau of the Promsteelconstruction, run by the Soviet Government. The main task of this bureau was the renovation or reconstruction of bridges, industrial buildings, and other objects destroyed during Second World War. It was soon renamed as the design firm Projectsteelconstruction. In 1960, the State Design Institute (SDI) “Ukrprojectsteelconstruction” was established based on Projectsteelconstruction. In 1980, professor Vitaliy Nikolayevich Shimanovsky, was appointed director. He was a corresponding member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Dc. Sc. (Eng.). In 1983, SDI “Ukrprojectsteelconstruction” was re-organized into the research and design Institute Ukrainian Research and Design Institute of Steel Construction. SDI became one of the leading research institutes in the branch of metal structures in USSR. SDI ran a metal structures plant in Brovary, Ukraine, a center of technological safety in Donbass, Ukraine, and departments in Mariupol, Poltava, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Lugansk, and Odessa. Ukraine era In June 1994, the Government of Ukraine organized SDI into an open joint-stock company, the Ukrainian Research and Design Institute of Steel Construction. In 1997, it was included on a list of scientific-technical organizations that had strategical significance for the national economy and security. Shimanovsky led the Institute for 20 years. More than 10,000 projects were developed during his term and with his direct participation. These projects include bridges, towers, slip docks, metal structures plants, frameworks of unique buildings and facilities. In 2000, after Shimanovsky's death, the institute was named after him. In 2010, the V.N. Shimanovsky Ukrainian Research and Design Institute of Steel Construction became a limited liability company, the V.N. Shimanovsky Ukrainian Institute of Steel Construction. The institute was