The Shukhov Tower Foundation

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The “Shukhov Tower” Foundation considers it necessary to draw attention of the public, of the administrative and commercial bodies to the state protection and restoration of a few memorials of industrial architecture located in Krasnodar region. The memorials of industrial culture emphasize the noble contribution of Russia to the development of North Caucasus, they are the tourist places of attraction and their significance becomes especially high in connection with the winter Olympic Games to be held in the city of Sochi.

14 Jun

On June 12 the presentation of the “Garage” Center of modern culture (CCC-Moscow Garage) was held in the gigantic building of the former Bakhmetjev bus park. The garage was built in 1926-1927 under the project of the great architects Konstantin Melnikov and Vladimir Shukhov and is a rare memorial of the constructivism architecture. The Bakhmetjev garage was restored by the Federation of Jewish communities of Russia. The CCC-Moscow garage project is financed by Roman Abramovich and is supervised by Darya Zhukova.

14 Mar

On March 19 there will be 86 years since the TV and radio tower in Shabolovka, Moscow was put into operation. During the last year the organizations responsible for preservation of the memorial of architecture of not only Russian but also of a world heritage did nothing to restore the lattice hyperboloid tower-shell and to turn it into a full-value tourist object. At the same time the steel construction continues to destroy slowly an soon may be completely lost!

12 Mar

Information regarding the main events and actions that took place under the initiative of the "Shukhov tower Foundation" from the beginning of 2007 till March, 2008.

29 Oct

The Foundation’s statement about the examination and restoration of the Shukhov tower in Moscow. In the first half of October the mass media published advertisements and interviews that considered the repair of the Shukhov tower in Moscow without setting free the adjacent territory and with building of various structures, not foreseen by the V.G. Shukhov’s design, into the tower’s foundation. The building of foreign structures into the architectural memorial will turn it into a sham. The Foundation’s council and the European experts consider such renovation unacceptable and unworthy of the great masterpiece of the world’s architecture. Any actions to preserve the Shukhov tower in Shabolovka, Moscow are impossible without serious examination of the condition of the architectural memorial’s structures. The Foundation collects the funds of sponsors to make the examination of the tower.

19 Sep

The jubilee of the V.G.Shukhov technical university in Belgorod. On September 18 Vladimir Fyodorovich Shukhov, President of the “Shukhov tower” Foundation took part in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov Belgorod state technical university. Before the beginning of festivities V.F. Shukhov together with his daughter Sofia visited Graivoron, the town where the great V.G. Shukhov was born. The main purpose of the visit to Graivoron was to discuss the idea of creating the Shukhov museum which was put forward by the administration of the area.

17 Sep

The “Shukhov tower” Foundation continues its project for the salvation of Shukhov tower on Oka River and the world’s first overhead covers-shells of V.G. Shukhov’s design in Vyksa. The delegation of German and Austrian scientists head by Professor Reiner Graefe, Director of Institute for the history of construction and protection of the architectural memorials at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) arrived to Nizhniy Novgorod in order to prepare for the repair works at the 128–meter tower-bearing of the NiGRES electric main. At same time the European scientists will take part in the development of a program for the restoration of unique steel lattice overhead covers-shells of double curvature built by Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov over the steel-rolling workshop of Vyksa metallurgical works.

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: 01 Jul The “Shukhov Tower” Foundation considers it necessary to draw attention of the public, of the administrative and commercial bodies to the state protection and restoration of a few memorials of industrial architecture located in Krasnodar region. The memorials of industrial culture emphasize the noble contribution of Russia to the development of North Caucasus, they are the tourist places of attraction and their significance becomes especially high in connection with the winter Olympic Games to be held in the city of Sochi. 14 Jun On June 12 the presentation of the “Garage” Center of modern culture (CCC-Moscow Garage) was held in the gigantic building of the former Bakhmetjev bus park. The garage was built in 1926-1927 under the project of the great architects Konstantin Melnikov and Vladimir Shukhov and is a rare memorial of the constructivism architecture. The Bakhmetjev garage was restored by the Federation of Jewish communities of Russia. The CCC-Moscow garage project is financed by Roman Abramovich and is supervised by Darya Zhukova. 14 Mar On March 19 there will be 86 years since the TV and radio tower in Shabolovka, Moscow was put into operation. During the last year the organizations responsible for preservation of the memorial of architecture of not only Russian but also of a world heritage did nothing to restore the lattice hyperboloid tower-shell and to turn it into a full-value tourist object. At the same time the steel construction continues to destroy slowly an soon may be completely lost! 12 Mar Information regarding the main events and actions that took place under the initiative of the "Shukhov tower Foundation" from the beginning of 2007 till March, 2008. 29 Oct The Foundation’s statement about the examination and restoration of the Shukhov tower in Moscow. In the first half of October the mass media published advertisements and interviews that considered the repair of the Shukhov tower in Moscow without setting free the adjacent territory and with building of various structures, not foreseen by the V.G. Shukhov’s design, into the tower’s foundation. The building of foreign structures into the architectural memorial will turn it into a sham. The Foundation’s council and the European experts consider such renovation unacceptable and unworthy of the great masterpiece of the world’s architecture. Any actions to preserve the Shukhov tower in Shabolovka, Moscow are impossible without serious examination of the condition of the architectural memorial’s structures. The Foundation collects the funds of sponsors to make the examination of the tower. 19 Sep The jubilee of the V.G.Shukhov technical university in Belgorod. On September 18 Vladimir Fyodorovich Shukhov, President of the “Shukhov tower” Foundation took part in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov Belgorod state technical university. Before the beginning of festivities V.F. Shukhov together with his daughter Sofia visited Graivoron, the town where the great V.G. Shukhov was born. The main purpose of the visit to Graivoron was to discuss the idea of creating the Shukhov museum which was put forward by the administration of the area. 17 Sep The “Shukhov tower” Foundation continues its project for the salvation of Shukhov tower on Oka River and the world’s first overhead covers-shells of V.G. Shukhov’s design in Vyksa. The delegation of German and Austrian scientists head by Professor Reiner Graefe, Director of Institute for the history of construction and protection of the architectural memorials at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) arrived to Nizhniy Novgorod in order to prepare for the repair works at the 128–meter tower-bearing of the NiGRES electric main. At same time the European scientists will take part in the development of a program for the restoration of unique steel lattice overhead covers-shells of double curvature built by Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov over the steel-rolling workshop of Vyksa metallurgical works.	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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