Development of a method of compacting saturated sand soils by blasts under winter conditions

The work was performed under the direction of Prof. P. L. Ivanov (deceased). The following workers of the Leningrad hydroelectric station participated in developing and introducing the method: I. V. Kornienko, V. B. Kuznetsov, L. E. Vasil'eva, A. E. Makarevich, I. P. Kuz'min, G. V. Plakhutin, as well as V. P. Smirnov, A. A. Kagan, G. N. Ivanov, N. V. Kosterin, S. I. Puzankov, and L. Ya. Libin of the Leningrad branch of the All-Russian Planning, Surveying, and Scientific-Research Institute.