The Shukhov radio tower , also known as the Shabolovka tower, is a broadcasting

Broadcasting

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 tower

Tower

A tower is a tall structure, usually taller than it is wide, often by a significant margin. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires....

 in Moscow

Moscow

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 designed 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 160-metre-high free-standing steel structure was built in the period 1920–1922, during the Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

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. It is a hyperboloid structure

Hyperboloid structure

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 (hyperbolic steel gridshell

Gridshell

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).

Due to its lattice structure

Structure

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, the steel shell of the Shukhov Tower experiences minimum wind

Wind

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 load (the main hazard for high-rising building

Building

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s). The tower sections are single-cavity hyperboloids of rotation made of straight beams, the ends of which rest against circular foundations.

The tower is located a few kilometres south of the Moscow Kremlin

Moscow Kremlin

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, but is not accessible to tourists. The street address of the tower is "Shabolovskaya Street, 37", hence the tower's informal name "Shabolovka, 37".

See also

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• List of Hyperboloid structures
• Shukhov tower on the Oka River
  Shukhov tower on the Oka River
  The Shukhov Tower on the Oka River is the world’s only hyperboloid electricity pylon. It is located in Russia, in the western suburbs of Nizhny Novgorod, on the left bank of the Oka River near Dzerzhinsk...
  
  
• Constructivist architecture
  Constructivist architecture
  Constructivist architecture was a form of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. It combined advanced technology and engineering with an avowedly Communist social purpose. Although it was divided into several competing factions, the movement produced...
  
  
• List of towers

External links

• Shukhov Tower in Moscow - video
• The Shukhov's Radio Tower
• International campaign to save the Shukhov Tower in Moscow
• Shukhov Towers in Google Maps
• 3D model of the Shukhov Tower
• Views of the hyperboloid tower
• Richard Pare's photo of the Shukhov Tower
• Invention of Hyperboloid Structures
• Shukhov Tower Foundation

• Die sparsame Konstruktion

• "Vladimir G. Shukhov e la leggerezza dell’acciaio", Fausto Giovannardi

• Shukhov's Towers