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      🏛 Forestry Institute Water Tower

      Институтский переулок, 5И

      A brick water tower — a landmark of the old Lesnoy campus.

      Forestry Institute Water Tower
      © Alexey Komarov · CC BY 3.0
      Forestry Institute Water Tower
      © Доброе Утро · CC BY 3.0
      • The tower was built in 1907–1909 by the architect Adam Dietrich, who taught at the Forestry Institute.
      • They wanted to supply the institute with artesian water, but it contained too much iron, so the idea was dropped.
      • The failed water tower was given to the meteorological observatory.
      • A station measuring groundwater level still works inside.
      • The tower originally had a wooden top, but it burned down.

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      • Lesnoy: Constructivism, the Forestry Academy and dachas

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