 The bridge was opened for service on 5 (17) April 1897

The apogee of his engineering career was the Romanovsky rail bridge, which was built in 1909-1913 across the Volga river near Zelenodolsk; It was renamed Red Bridge after the October revolution of 1917.Its oval openwork lattice spans amounted to (a similar model was replicated for the bridge in Simbirsk).Due to their extension, the designer was able to reduce the number of spans (six large and two small).