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\n \n Bauer (Baur, Baor, Bawer, Bawr) Fiodor Vilimovich (Friedrich-Wilhelm) (1734–1783, SPb), military engineer, hydraulic engineering technologist, cartographer. He was an Swede by birth, he worked for Russia from 1769. Quartermaster-General (1769), Engineer-General (1780). Bauer was born in the county Ganau (Germany), he served on the army of Gessen, in Prussia, he took part in the Seven Years Warу and in Russco-Turkish War during the campaign of 1770-1771. From 1771 Bauer worked in St Petresburg, he was the Head of the General Staff and the author of its reforming. Several fortress, harbors in Kronstadt and Riga, and other constructions were built to the designs of Bauer. He designed and built several large hydraulic engineering constructions including the Mytishchi water supply system in Moscow, that was the central water supply system, first in Russia ( the work was began in 1779 and the work was finished in 1804), the Taitsy water supply system for providing Tsarskoyey Selo by water (the work was began in 1772), and the first heavy showerseverage system in St Petersburg. Bauer was the head of the Commission for the Constructing at the Fontanka River and the Catherine Canal (now the Griboyedov Canal) , the constructing of their granite embankments and descents were began under the heading of Bauer. The project of the canal between the River Msta and the River Volkhov was worked out by Bauer in 1782. He was the author of several works on the topographical descriptions of regions. Bauer lived in his own house in St Petersburg at the corner of the Big Neva River and the Fontanka River (\"near the Laundress Bridge\" ) (ite present address is 36 Kutuzov Embankment). The marble plaque was installed in the Grotto \"Monk\" in the Babolov Park in Tsarskoye Selo with the inscription in Russian and Latin \" Tsarskoye Selo was provided with clean water, Tsarskoye Selo had not the clean water before, by the work of General von Bauer during the happy reign of Catherine II \".\n
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