Shukhov Tower

The Shukhov radio tower (Russian Шуховская башня; transcription: Schuchowskaja Baschnja ), also: Shabolovka Radio Tower, is a 160 meter high hyperbolic steel truss tower in Moscow, built in 1922 as a transmission tower for the Soviet radio and after its designer, Vladimir Shukhov (1853 - 1939), was named.

After the October Revolution of 1917 Shukhov was soon one of its biggest contracts: the construction of a 350 meter high transmission tower of the Comintern radio station on the Shabolovka Street in Moscow. In 1919 presented Shukhov design and calculations for a tower that would have required only a quarter of the amount of steel in spite of a higher level than in 1889 built the Eiffel Tower. However, since these 2,200 tons were not available even in Moscow at the time, Lenin finally signed in the summer available to build a 150 -meter-high version. The tower was a further development of the water towers and consisted of six on another to hyperboloids. The bases of the individual floors were formed by rigid rings. This design also allowed an amazingly simple construction methods. Inside the tower bottom part shows the next segment was assembled on the ground and then using five simple wooden cranes pulled into the air. The construction of the tower broke in the young state of great excitement. Shukhov had made ​​calculations that having three transmission towers of the originally planned height of the entire Soviet Union could have been covered. It remained, however, the construction of a reduced scale the tower.

On half of the steel profiles, which were used in the construction of the tower, there is the stamp of the company Krupp. The Shukhov radio tower is not open to the public.

Stamp 1963

Stamp 1979

Night Scene in 2007

At night, 2003

Evening View, 2002