Adziogol Lighthouse
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Adziogol Lighthouse (Ukrainian and Russian: Аджигольский маяк) is a graceful vertical lattice hyperboloid structure of steel bars, 70 meters high.
Designed by Vladimir Shukhov in 1910, it is situated in Dneprovsky Liman firth about 30km from Kherson, Ukraine. Its light can be seen for up to 17 nautical miles.
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- Adziogol Lighthouse at Panoramio
- Adziogol Lighthouse at WikiMapia
- Adziogol Lighthouse - "Postcard from Ukraine"
- Photos of Adziogol Lighthouse
- Adziogol Lighthouse from greatbuildings.com
- Calculation of a lighthouse after the system of engineer's Vladimir Shukhov (in German)
- 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.
- Rainer Graefe: “Vladimir G. Šuchov 1853-1939 - Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.”, S.192, Stuttgart, DVA, 1990, ISBN 3-421-02984-9. [1]
- 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.
