 Complete the following phrase:  In 1902, while he was working as an engineer on the construction of the Moscow-Kazan railway, Peredery took a teaching job with the railways department at the . Between 1907 and 1914 he also lectured at the Engineering Institute of Transport Communications Петербургского Института инженеров путей сообщения  in St. Petersburg. In 1919 became a professor. In 1920 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Structures and in 1921 he became rector at the Petrograd State Transport University as it was known at that time. Between 1923 and 1927 he also held the post of rector at the Institute of Civil Engineers Института гражданских инженеров . The period since 1914 had been one of enduring crisis, which for the transportation sector meant addressing the urgent need for reconstruction following the widespread destruction and degradation caused by the Civil War and 