Adziogol Lighthouse also known as Stanislav Range Rear Light, is a vertical lattice hyperboloid structure

Hyperboloid structure

Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed with hyperboloid geometry. Often these are tall structures such as towers where the hyperboloid geometry's structural strength is used to support an object high off the ground, but hyperboloid geometry is also often used for decorative...

 of steel bars, serving as an active lighthouse

Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....

, about 30 kilometres (18.6 mi) from Kherson

Kherson

Kherson is a city in southern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kherson Oblast , and is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast. Kherson is an important port on the Black Sea and Dnieper River, and the home of a major ship-building industry...

, Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

. At a height of 211 feet (64.3 m) it is the sixteenth tallest "traditional lighthouse" in the world as well as the tallest in Ukraine.

It is located on a concrete pier on a tiny islet off the mouth of the Dnieper River

Dnieper River

The Dnieper River is one of the major rivers of Europe that flows from Russia, through Belarus and Ukraine, to the Black Sea.The total length is and has a drainage basin of .The river is noted for its dams and hydroelectric stations...

, about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) north of Rybalce. Together with Stanislav Range Front Light

Stanislav Range Front Light

Stanislav Range Front Light is an active lighthouse and range light, located on a concrete pier on a tiny islet about west northwest of Rybalce, about from Kherson, Ukraine...

 it serves as a range light, guiding ships entering the Dnieper River.

The lighthouse was designed in 1910 and built in 1911 by Vladimir Shukhov

Vladimir Shukhov

Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov , was a Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of world's first hyperboloid structures, lattice shell structures, tensile...

. The 1-story keeper's house is built within the base.

The site of the tower is accessible only by boat. The site is open to the public but the tower is closed.

See also

• Thin-shell structure
  Thin-shell structure
  Thin-shell structures are light weight constructions using shell elements. These elements are typically curved and are assembled to large structures...
  
  
• List of Hyperboloid structures
• List of thin shell structures
• List of tallest lighthouses in the world

Further reading

• Rainer Graefe: “Vladimir G. Šuchov 1853-1939 - Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.”, S.192, Stuttgart, DVA, 1990, ISBN 3-421-02984-9. http://www.tec21.ch/pdf/tec21_4120041723.pdf
• Peter Gössel, Gabriele Leuthäuser, Eva Schickler: “Architecture in the 20th century”, Taschen Verlag; 1990, ISBN 3-8228-1162-9 and ISBN 3-8228-0550-5
• Kevin Matthews, "The Great Buildings Collection", CD-ROM, Artifice, 2001, ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.
• 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, 264p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.

External links

• Adziogol Lighthouse - video, 2010