Shukhov tower on the Oka River

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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 western suburbs of Nizhniy Novgorod, on the left bank of the Oka River near Dzerzhinsk.

The tower was a part of a 110kV powerline crossing the Oka River. Between 1927 and 1929 two parallel running 110kV-three phase AC powerlines were built there. For the Oka River crossing, six hyperbolic pylons (three for each powerline) were built, a 20 metre tall anchor pylon, a 68 metre tall crossing pylon on the South shore and a 128 metre tall crossing pylon on the North shore. As the terrain on the South shore is hilly, the pylons there were lower.

In 1989 the powerline was rerouted and the 20 and 68 metre pylons were dismantled. The 128 metre pylons remained as a monument. Unfortunately today only one of the 128 metre pylons stands. The other was illegally scrapped to sell its steel parts.

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 120 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.

The last pylon out of six constructed by Shukhov on the banks of Oka River needs repair. The Unified Energy System, Russia's electricity company has been using Shukhov's unique constructions for 70 years, will repair The Shukhov tower on the Oka River.

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

Contents 1 See also 2 External links 3 References 4 Photos

[edit] See also

• Shukhov Tower
• Hyperboloid structure
• List of Hyperboloid structures
• Vladimir Shukhov
• List of towers
• Electricity pylon
• Pylons of Cádiz

[edit] External links

(English)

• 3D model Shukhov tower on the Oka River
• Dzerzhinsk High-Voltage Masts in the Structurae database
• Photos Shukhov towers on the Oka Riever
• Invention of Hyperboloid Structures

(German)

• Die sparsame Konstruktion
• Konstruktionform. Nigres-Stromleitungsmast

(Italian)

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

(Russian)

• Video about the Shukhov tower on the Oka River

(Chinese)

• Shukhov's Towers

[edit] References

(English)

• Elizabeth C. 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.

(German)

• “Vladimir G. Suchov 1853-1939. Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.”, Rainer Graefe und andere, 192 S., Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1990, ISBN 3-421-02984-9.
• Jesberg, Paulgerd Die Geschichte der Bauingenieurkunst, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (Germany) , ISBN 3-421-03078-2, 1996; pp. 198-9.

[edit] Photos

Shukhov towers on the Oka River, 1989	Shukhov towers on the Oka River, 1989	Shukhov tower on the Oka River by Nizhniy Novgorod, 2006	Shukhov tower on the Oka River by Nizhniy Novgorod, 2006
Oka Shukhov tower, destroyed in 2005	Oka Shukhov tower, destroyed in 2005	Oka Shukhov tower, destroyed in 2005	Oka Shukhov tower, destroyed in 2005
Oka Shukhov tower, destroyed in 2005	Oka Shukhov tower, destroyed in 2005

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