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Shukhov water tower

Russia / Lipeck / Dankov /
 water tower, interesting place, listed building / architectural heritage, hyperboloid structure

The Shukhov tower in Polibino is the World's first diagrid hyperboloid structure designed in 1896 by Russian engineer and architect Vladimir Shukhov.

Vladimir Shukhov invented hyperboloid towers and was also the first one to use them in construction. For the 1896 All-Russia industrial and art exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod he built the 37-meter steel diagrid tower, which became the first hyperboloid structure in the world.

After the exhibition was closed, the openwork tower was bought by a leading glassware manufacturer and art sponsor, Yury Nechaev-Maltsov. It was relocated into his estate in Polibino where it has been preserved until now. The estate is currently under state protection (federal level) as a former property of the Nechayev family.
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