Shukhov Tower
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The Shukhov Radio Tower, also known as the Shabolovka Tower, is a broadcasting tower deriving from the Russian avant-garde in Moscow designed by Vladimir Shukhov. The 160-metre-high free-standing stee
The tower in 2007
Shabolovka telecentre in December 2016
Shukhov Tower Project of 350 metres, 1919.
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The Shukhov Tower on the Oka River is one of the world’s two diagrid hyperboloid transmission tower. It is located in Russia, in the western suburbs of Nizhny Novgorod, on the left bank of the Oka Riv
Shukhov Tower
…Nechaev-Maltsov, a well-known manufacturer in the city. Shukhov was responsible for constructions of a new types of lighthouses, masts, water towers and transmission towers. The broadcasting tower at Shabolovka is a diagrid structure in the form of a rotated hyperboloid. The Khodynka radio station, built in 1914, could no…
Originally built as a matching, identical pair, there is only one currently standing. The remaining Shukhov Tower was built for the power line crossing, after its twin was destroyed – 2006
The two 128-meter towers in 1988, shortly before the power line was decommissioned a year later.