The Shukhov Tower Foundation

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News:

On April 13, 2010 a meeting regarding the present condition of the architectural monument of the world significance, the radio-broadcasting tower in Shabolovka Street, Moscow – the Shukhov Tower — took place in the Committee for the cultural heritage of Moscow.

19 Mar

Famous British architect Sir Norman Foster has become the latest voice to join calls to save the iconic Shukhov radio tower.

14 Mar

Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov was one of the greatest structural engineers of the early Twentieth Century and unquestionably the leading engineer of his era in Russia. He pioneered the use of entirely new structural systems, creating hyperboloid structures of double curvature whose lightness and geometric complexify defy the imagination, even in the computer age.

10 Mar

The radio tower in Shabolovka Street is the world known and one of the most significant masterpieces of architecture of the beginning of the XX century. The creator of the tower, Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov, was a leading inventor of the contemporary building structures. Shukhov’s achievements may be compared only with the achievements of Gustave Eiffel, Robert Maillart or Eugene Freyssinet.

23 Oct

Yesterday the “Shukhov Tower” Foundation for the development of science, culture and art together with the Moscow department of the Union of artists of Russia and the Moscow Nobility Assembly held a press-conference devoted to the 175th anniversary of the Great Russian Maecenas Yuriy Stepanovich Nechaev-Maltsov (1834-1913), preservation of his heritage, renaming and restoring of the Museum of Fine Arts (now GMII after A.S. Pushkin) granted by him to Russia.

29 Jul

It is necessary to rescue the world’s first hyperboloid tower! The Shukhov tower in Polibino, Dankovskiy area in Lipetsk region is the only one preserved of the world’s first steel lattice shells invented and constructed according to the projects of V.G. Shukhov for the 1896 All Russian industrial and art exhibition in Nizhniy Novgorod. The “Shukhov Tower” Foundation urges you to make a donation for the anti-breakdown repair of the world’s first hyperboloid lattice tower!

17 Feb

On April 12, 1961 Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin made the world’s first flight of a man to space and became the first cosmonaut of the planet of Earth. Two years prior to the 50th anniversary of this great event it makes sense to carry out preparation of a PR-campaign reminding the world community about the flight of Yu. A. Gagarin. First of all, there must be made an advanced Internet portal about the preparation and the execution of the first space flight. It is necessary to prepare the publication of the multilingual photo albums and to make a high-class documentary.

Your donation will help the Sukhov Tower Foundation!

The photography took a special and, perhaps, one of the main places in the life of the Great Russian engineer, designer and scientist Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov. The constant search for new ways of solving the technical problems was also inherent to Shukhov when he worked with camera. The photographic interests of V.G. Shukhov are many-sided: documentary-genre photography, city landscape, pictures of the Moscow life and the life of the Russian province at the end of XIX - beginning of XX century and portraits, constructivism. The original and free look of the Russian intellectual and scientist at the surrounding reality of Russia is interesting with respect to the fact that V.G. Shukhov made pictures not for publishing, not by the order, but for himself and for his environment. Shukhov was a perfect expert on literature and art, was a widely educated person and knew five foreign languages, and the height of his development is reflected in the depth of his photographic works. V.G. Shukhov possessed a rare ability to see the unusualness and originality of the surrounding reality and to catch it with his camera.

In 1895 in Nizhniy Novgorod Shukhov met the famous Russian photo artist Andrey Osipovich Karelin. At that time Shukhov directed the construction of the unique steel lattice overhead covers, which he invented, of the 1896 All-Russia industrial and art exhibition pavilions. Karelin photographed the stages of construction of the world's first steel lattice shells of the Shukhov's pavilions and of the world's first hyperboloid structure - the steel lattice shell of the water tower. The intercourse with Andrey Karelin caused a lively interest of Vladimir Shukhov towards art photography as a work that requires serious skill.

In his photographic creative works Shukhov opened new trends decades ahead of their flourishing in the photo art world. The serious genre photo works in the beginning of the century are a big rarity. The documentary-genre photography was recognized as an art in the 40s of XX century. The Moscow of that time with the eyes of Shukhov is not the standard view postcards, but the story full of life about the city, its inhabitants, their holidays and everyday life. The family chronicle of Shukhov is the description of life in the pre-revolution Russia: skating, lessons at home, dacha life, portraits of acquaintances, interiors of that time.

The photo chronicle of Shukhov resembles the works of Cartier-Bresson, but Shukhov photographed almost half a century earlier. The reporting topics of Shukhov: the elections to the State Duma, the revolutionary events on Krasnaya Presnya, the opening of the monument to Gogol in Moscow, the construction of Kievskiy station (former Bryanskiy), the sacred procession in Kremlin, the motor races at the Moscow hippodrome, the life of Yalta port and many others.

The photographs of the high-rise works during the construction of Kievskiy station may be attributed to the classics of Russian constructivism. Alexander Rodchenko photographed the Shukhov Tower in Shabolovka, Andrey Karelin photographed the construction of the Shukhov's pavilion at the Nizhniy Novgorod fair - but beside these famous photo artists Shukhov photographed all that as well by himself. The photographs of unique structures made by their own creator are twice unique.

Vladimir Kupriyanov, Artist

The photo works of Shukhov were not published earlier in a separate edition, and the greater part of the photographs has never been published at all. The Shukhov Tower Foundation for the development of science, culture and art together with "The Moscow House of photography" led by Olga Sviblova is preparing the publication of an album with the photo works of Vladimir Shukhov. In the future it is planned to hold exhibitions of the V.G. Shukhov's photo works in Moscow, London, Paris and Stutgart.

The Shukhov Tower Foundation invites you to cooperate and to sponsor the publication of an album with the photographic works of Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov. With your help this unique edition will open to the world the unknown page of the creative works of the Great engineer and photo artist. You can forward your letters to the following E-mail address: info@shukhov.ru

Yours respectfully,
President of the Shukhov Tower Foundation
Vladimir Fyodorovich Shukhov

The English version of the site is on the stage of testing, additional development and editing. We will be grateful to you for your comments, additions and wishes. We will also be grateful for recommendations regarding the corrections and editing of the texts from our web site to those users, to whom English is the mother tongue. E-mail: info@shukhov.ru

Deutsch Русский The Shukhov Tower Foundation
News: 16 Apr On April 13, 2010 a meeting regarding the present condition of the architectural monument of the world significance, the radio-broadcasting tower in Shabolovka Street, Moscow – the Shukhov Tower — took place in the Committee for the cultural heritage of Moscow. 19 Mar Famous British architect Sir Norman Foster has become the latest voice to join calls to save the iconic Shukhov radio tower. 14 Mar Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov was one of the greatest structural engineers of the early Twentieth Century and unquestionably the leading engineer of his era in Russia. He pioneered the use of entirely new structural systems, creating hyperboloid structures of double curvature whose lightness and geometric complexify defy the imagination, even in the computer age. 10 Mar The radio tower in Shabolovka Street is the world known and one of the most significant masterpieces of architecture of the beginning of the XX century. The creator of the tower, Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov, was a leading inventor of the contemporary building structures. Shukhov’s achievements may be compared only with the achievements of Gustave Eiffel, Robert Maillart or Eugene Freyssinet. 23 Oct Yesterday the “Shukhov Tower” Foundation for the development of science, culture and art together with the Moscow department of the Union of artists of Russia and the Moscow Nobility Assembly held a press-conference devoted to the 175th anniversary of the Great Russian Maecenas Yuriy Stepanovich Nechaev-Maltsov (1834-1913), preservation of his heritage, renaming and restoring of the Museum of Fine Arts (now GMII after A.S. Pushkin) granted by him to Russia. 29 Jul It is necessary to rescue the world’s first hyperboloid tower! The Shukhov tower in Polibino, Dankovskiy area in Lipetsk region is the only one preserved of the world’s first steel lattice shells invented and constructed according to the projects of V.G. Shukhov for the 1896 All Russian industrial and art exhibition in Nizhniy Novgorod. The “Shukhov Tower” Foundation urges you to make a donation for the anti-breakdown repair of the world’s first hyperboloid lattice tower! 17 Feb On April 12, 1961 Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin made the world’s first flight of a man to space and became the first cosmonaut of the planet of Earth. Two years prior to the 50th anniversary of this great event it makes sense to carry out preparation of a PR-campaign reminding the world community about the flight of Yu. A. Gagarin. First of all, there must be made an advanced Internet portal about the preparation and the execution of the first space flight. It is necessary to prepare the publication of the multilingual photo albums and to make a high-class documentary.	Foundation	Projects	Ideas	V. G. Shukhov	Tower	Contacts
	Your donation will help the Sukhov Tower Foundation!

	The photography took a special and, perhaps, one of the main places in the life of the Great Russian engineer, designer and scientist Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov. The constant search for new ways of solving the technical problems was also inherent to Shukhov when he worked with camera. The photographic interests of V.G. Shukhov are many-sided: documentary-genre photography, city landscape, pictures of the Moscow life and the life of the Russian province at the end of XIX - beginning of XX century and portraits, constructivism. The original and free look of the Russian intellectual and scientist at the surrounding reality of Russia is interesting with respect to the fact that V.G. Shukhov made pictures not for publishing, not by the order, but for himself and for his environment. Shukhov was a perfect expert on literature and art, was a widely educated person and knew five foreign languages, and the height of his development is reflected in the depth of his photographic works. V.G. Shukhov possessed a rare ability to see the unusualness and originality of the surrounding reality and to catch it with his camera. In 1895 in Nizhniy Novgorod Shukhov met the famous Russian photo artist Andrey Osipovich Karelin. At that time Shukhov directed the construction of the unique steel lattice overhead covers, which he invented, of the 1896 All-Russia industrial and art exhibition pavilions. Karelin photographed the stages of construction of the world's first steel lattice shells of the Shukhov's pavilions and of the world's first hyperboloid structure - the steel lattice shell of the water tower. The intercourse with Andrey Karelin caused a lively interest of Vladimir Shukhov towards art photography as a work that requires serious skill. In his photographic creative works Shukhov opened new trends decades ahead of their flourishing in the photo art world. The serious genre photo works in the beginning of the century are a big rarity. The documentary-genre photography was recognized as an art in the 40s of XX century. The Moscow of that time with the eyes of Shukhov is not the standard view postcards, but the story full of life about the city, its inhabitants, their holidays and everyday life. The family chronicle of Shukhov is the description of life in the pre-revolution Russia: skating, lessons at home, dacha life, portraits of acquaintances, interiors of that time. The photo chronicle of Shukhov resembles the works of Cartier-Bresson, but Shukhov photographed almost half a century earlier. The reporting topics of Shukhov: the elections to the State Duma, the revolutionary events on Krasnaya Presnya, the opening of the monument to Gogol in Moscow, the construction of Kievskiy station (former Bryanskiy), the sacred procession in Kremlin, the motor races at the Moscow hippodrome, the life of Yalta port and many others. The photographs of the high-rise works during the construction of Kievskiy station may be attributed to the classics of Russian constructivism. Alexander Rodchenko photographed the Shukhov Tower in Shabolovka, Andrey Karelin photographed the construction of the Shukhov's pavilion at the Nizhniy Novgorod fair - but beside these famous photo artists Shukhov photographed all that as well by himself. The photographs of unique structures made by their own creator are twice unique. Vladimir Kupriyanov, Artist The photo works of Shukhov were not published earlier in a separate edition, and the greater part of the photographs has never been published at all. The Shukhov Tower Foundation for the development of science, culture and art together with "The Moscow House of photography" led by Olga Sviblova is preparing the publication of an album with the photo works of Vladimir Shukhov. In the future it is planned to hold exhibitions of the V.G. Shukhov's photo works in Moscow, London, Paris and Stutgart. The Shukhov Tower Foundation invites you to cooperate and to sponsor the publication of an album with the photographic works of Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov. With your help this unique edition will open to the world the unknown page of the creative works of the Great engineer and photo artist. You can forward your letters to the following E-mail address: info@shukhov.ru Yours respectfully, President of the Shukhov Tower Foundation Vladimir Fyodorovich Shukhov The English version of the site is on the stage of testing, additional development and editing. We will be grateful to you for your comments, additions and wishes. We will also be grateful for recommendations regarding the corrections and editing of the texts from our web site to those users, to whom English is the mother tongue. E-mail: info@shukhov.ru
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