Up for auction a VERY RARE! "Bridge Designer" Oleg Kerensky Cut Signature. 

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Oleg Aleksandrovich Kerensky CBE FRS (Russian: Оле́г Алекса́ндрович

Кере́нский),

(16 April 1905 – 25 June 1984) was a Russian civil engineer, one of the foremost bridge

designers of his time. Kerensky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the son of future Russian prime minister Alexander Kerensky, who

survived the events of the Russian Civil War and emigrated to Paris in

1918. Both Oleg and his younger brother Gleb graduated as engineers in 1927,

and both settled in England. As an associate of Dorman Long, Kerensky assisted on the landmark 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge. As

an associate, and then a partner, in the firm Freeman Fox & Partners,

Kerensky designed many British road bridges and structures such as the 1951

temporary Dome of Discovery in

London, the largest dome in the world. He was president of the Institution

of Structural Engineers in 1970–71 and won their Gold Medal in

1977. After his death in London, the same institution began their

Kerensky Memorial Conferences beginning in 1988. He was made a C.B.E. in 1964 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal

Society in 1970.  Kerensky was the father and namesake of

dance critic Oleg Kerensky, Jr (1930–1993). Oleg Junior was in the 1981

film Reds portraying

his grandfather when he was the head of the Russian Provisional

Government.