Shukhov Tower on the Oka River

Shukhov Tower on the Oka River in the suburb of Nizhniy Novgorod, 2006

Shukhov Tower on the Oka River (Dzerzhinsk High-Voltage Mast) is the world’s only surviving hyperboloid electricity pylon. It is located in Russia, in the suburb of Nizhniy Novgorod, on the left bank of the Oka River near Dzerzhinsk. The tower was originally one of six designed by Russian engineer and scientist Vladimir Shukhov and built between 1927-1929. The unique 128-meter tower served as a supporting pylon for the 110 kV NiGRES electric lines over the Oka River. The tower-pylon consists of five 25-meter steel lattice sections, formed by single-cavity hyperboloids of revolution. The sections of pylon are made of straight profiles, the ends of which rest against circular foundations. The tower's circular concrete foundation has a diameter of 30 meters.

Today only one of these beatuiful structures has been preserved and the Shukhov Tower on the Oka River is now protected by the Russian state.

Non-hyperboloid pylons of similar design can be seen near Cadiz, Spain.

See also

• Hyperboloid structure
• Shukhov Tower
• Vladimir Shukhov
• List of towers

External links

• Photos Shukhov towers on the Oka Riever
• Dzerzhinsk High-Voltage Masts
• 3D model Shukhov tower on the Oka River
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 22.06.2005
• Konstruktionform. Nigres-Stromleitungsmast
• Invention of Hyperboloid Structures

References

• Brumfield, William Cruft. The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991.
• Elizabeth Cooper English: “Arkhitektura i mnimosti”: The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition”, a dissertation in architecture, 264 p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
• Rainer Graefe: “Vladimir G. Šuchov 1853-1939 - Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.”, S.192, Stuttgart, DVA, 1990. [1]

Photos

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  Shukhov towers on the Oka River, 1989
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  Shukhov towers on the Oka River, 1989
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  Shukhov tower on the Oka River by Nizhniy Novgorod, 2006

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