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      🏛 Shukhov Tower

      ул. Шухова, 10

      A steel lattice tower made of six hyperboloid sections, an engineering landmark by Vladimir Shukhov. According to RTRS's plan, repairs begin in October 2026 and will take about three years: the tower will be taken apart piece by piece and reassembled, so there may be fencing around it.

      Shukhov Tower
      © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
      Shukhov Tower
      © Arssenev · CC BY-SA 3.0
      • The tower was built in 1919–1922 for a radio station that Lenin, by a decree of 30 July 1919, ordered to be set up "in an extremely urgent manner".
      • The first design was for 350 m, taller than the Eiffel Tower, but it was cut back because of a metal shortage; 240 tonnes of steel were allocated from military reserves.
      • During assembly a cable snapped and the fourth section fell from a height of 75 m, damaging the fifth and sixth.
      • Radio broadcasts from the tower began on 19 March 1922.
      • Shukhov built his first lattice tower in 1896 for the exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod; it survives at the Polibino estate.
      • Alexei Tolstoy's novel The Garin Death Ray (Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin) was inspired by the buzz around the tower's construction.

      Part of these routes

      • Danilovsky Market and the monasteries of the south
      • All day: gastronomic Moscow
      • All day: architecture from Art Nouveau to GES-2
      • Danilovsky Market, Shukhov Tower and Donskoy

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