Shukhov Tower
Sign in to savea broadcasting tower in Moscow designed by Vladimir Shukhov
Key facts
- Architectural style
- Constructivist architecture
- Location
- Moscow
- Tip
- 160 m (525 ft)
- Architect
- Vladimir Shukhov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- architectural landmark
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Moscow
- Material used
- steel
- Official website
- www.shukhov.ru
- Image
- Черно белая шуховская башня.JPG
- Height
- 160
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- inception
- 1922-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Shukhov tower
- start time
- 1920-00-00
- architect
- Vladimir Shukhov
- Commons category
- Shukhov tower (Moscow)
- native label
- Шуховская башня
- directions
- улица Шухова, 10, строение 1
Sources (11)
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Encyclopedic overview
55°43′02″N 37°36′41″E / 55.71722°N 37.61139°E / 55.71722; 37.61139
The Shukhov Radio Tower (Russian: Шуховская башня), also known as the Shabolovka Tower (Шаболовская башня), is a broadcasting tower deriving from the Russian avant-garde in Moscow designed by Vladimir Shukhov. The 160-metre-high (520 ft) free-standing steel diagrid structure was built between 1920 and 1922, during the Russian Civil War.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shukhov Tower” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.