The article deals with the formation and the development of research work and scientific schools at the departments of the Civil Engineering Faculty in Siberian Transport University. Four stages of research development are distinguished:1932–1941 – was the initial period in the history of the University, which was characterized by the lack of highly qualified scientific personnel. Of great importance is the attraction of the leading scientists from Tomsk, Moscow and Novosibirsk who laid the first scientific schools: architecture and urban planning, reinforced concrete, water supply and ice making.1941–1945 – wartime period, the evacuation to Novosibirsk from Moscow, Leningrad and Dnepropetrovsk railway universities occurred. Professors of these universities raised the research work to a new level in NIVIT (the former name of STU); the formation of the building materials scientific school was organized.1946–1953 – was the period of the national economy restoration devastated by the war. The departure of the previously evacuated scientists. The development of the scientific schools.1953–1992 – is concerned with the period of strengthening and flourishing of scientific schools at the departments of the faculty. The university science is one of the priority directions of the country's economic development. Strengthening and development of scientific fields and schools.1992–2022 – is the collapse of the USSR, destructive economic processes, outflow of young scientists to business, scarce financing of science. But the scientific schools have been preserved, research continues, improvement of the situation in the second half of the stage.