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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.

04 Feb

The exhibition “The first engineer of Russia” dedicated to the remembrance of Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov opened in the State central museum of modern history of Russia yesterday. The opening of the exhibition was attended by Alexander Sergeevich Dzasokhov, chairman of the RF Federation Council Commission for culture, Felix Leonidovich Chernousko, Irina Georgievna Goryacheva, Robert Veniaminovich Goldshtein, the RAN academicians, Igor Andreevich Beketov, general director of the “LUKOIL” welfare fund”, Vladimir Fyodorovich Shukhov, president of the “Shukhov Tower” Foundation.

29 Dec

The project “Mosconstruct” 2008-2009 of the Rome University “La Sapienza” and the Moscow architectural institute (MARHI) has been backed by the European commission. It is aimed at the protection of the Moscow monuments of architecture of the 1920s – early 1930s. A special attention of the authors of the project is drawn to the site development around the radio tower of the outstanding Russian engineer Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov in Shabolovka. It is necessary to put this work of a genius in order and to turn the surrounding territory into an architecturally sensible recreational-tourist complex.

20 Dec

There have been 130 years since the startup of the first Russian oil pipeline. In the autumn-winter of 1878 the 8,5 verst oil pipeline with a throughput capacity of 80 thousand pood of oil a day was built on the Apsheron peninsula for the Nobel brothers’ oil company in accordance with the Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov’s project. The oil pipeline connected the Balakhanskoe oilfield with the Nobels’ refinery located in the so-called Chyornyi gorod in the outskirts of Baku.

14 Dec

The upper trade lines (GUM) on the Red Square of Moscow have turned 115. The building of GUM is the architectural monument of the federal significance. The authors of the Upper trade lines are the Great architects Alexander Nikanorovich Pomerantsev and Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov.

Your donation will help the Sukhov Tower Foundation!

The activities of the Shukhov Tower Foundation for the development of science, culture and art are aimed at the promotion of scientific and engineering achievements, the traditions of education, culture and art, at the realization of social projects and the preservation of heritage of the Great engineer, inventor and scientist Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov .

The main fields of V.G. Shukhov's creative work were the invention and creation of the equipment for oil industry, the steel building structures and heat machines. V.G. Shukhov was the author and technical leader of the construction of the first oil pipelines in Russia, the inventor of the world's first industrial plant for oil cracking, world's first steel hyperboloid towers, lattice shells, hanging steel lattice overhead covers, tubular steam boilers, air lift, black oil burner. The full list of the Great engineer's developments takes dozens of pages. V.G. Shukhov was a many-sided person and his creative works were not confined just by technical achievements. He was keen on theatre, sport and art photography.

The heritage of the Great master is alive as long as it is used by the new generations. The theoretical and practical development of the oil hydraulics fundamentals and the construction of pipeline systems, stated in the works of V.G. Shukhov, is used until now during the construction of trunk oil pipelines. Today the development of modern technologies of gasoline production and of the plants for oil cracking has gone far ahead, but many elements first invented by V.G. Shukhov remain the basis of their structures. New hyperboloid towers were recently built in Japan, Czechia, Spain and Switzerland. The architect Ken Shuttleworth designed the three hundred meter hyperboloid skyscraper "VORTEX" that is to be built in London. Nowadays, the heritage of V.G. Shukhov in the construction of the unique hanging and lattice shells structures is developed by the architectural schools of Frei Otto and Norman Foster. These structures are widespread in the modern European and Japanese architecture.

The Foundation's ideology and values, its goals, tasks and program correspond with the ideology and many-sided activities of Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov and with the topical problems of science, culture and art of our time.

The preservation and promotion of V.G. Shukhov's heritage, the initiatives for the preservation of Shukhov's structures in the regions of Russia and CIS, the cultural and socially significant projects in small towns of Russia and the creation of Shukhov center in Moscow may be considered among the Foundation's main current tasks.

The Shukhov Tower Foundation invites the interested parties for the mutually beneficial cooperation to realize joint projects.

Yours respectfully,
Vladimir Fyodorovich Shukhov
President of the Foundation.

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: 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. 04 Feb The exhibition “The first engineer of Russia” dedicated to the remembrance of Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov opened in the State central museum of modern history of Russia yesterday. The opening of the exhibition was attended by Alexander Sergeevich Dzasokhov, chairman of the RF Federation Council Commission for culture, Felix Leonidovich Chernousko, Irina Georgievna Goryacheva, Robert Veniaminovich Goldshtein, the RAN academicians, Igor Andreevich Beketov, general director of the “LUKOIL” welfare fund”, Vladimir Fyodorovich Shukhov, president of the “Shukhov Tower” Foundation. 29 Dec The project “Mosconstruct” 2008-2009 of the Rome University “La Sapienza” and the Moscow architectural institute (MARHI) has been backed by the European commission. It is aimed at the protection of the Moscow monuments of architecture of the 1920s – early 1930s. A special attention of the authors of the project is drawn to the site development around the radio tower of the outstanding Russian engineer Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov in Shabolovka. It is necessary to put this work of a genius in order and to turn the surrounding territory into an architecturally sensible recreational-tourist complex. 20 Dec There have been 130 years since the startup of the first Russian oil pipeline. In the autumn-winter of 1878 the 8,5 verst oil pipeline with a throughput capacity of 80 thousand pood of oil a day was built on the Apsheron peninsula for the Nobel brothers’ oil company in accordance with the Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov’s project. The oil pipeline connected the Balakhanskoe oilfield with the Nobels’ refinery located in the so-called Chyornyi gorod in the outskirts of Baku. 14 Dec The upper trade lines (GUM) on the Red Square of Moscow have turned 115. The building of GUM is the architectural monument of the federal significance. The authors of the Upper trade lines are the Great architects Alexander Nikanorovich Pomerantsev and Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov.	Foundation	Projects	Ideas	V. G. Shukhov	Tower	Contacts
	Your donation will help the Sukhov Tower Foundation!

	The activities of the Shukhov Tower Foundation for the development of science, culture and art are aimed at the promotion of scientific and engineering achievements, the traditions of education, culture and art, at the realization of social projects and the preservation of heritage of the Great engineer, inventor and scientist Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov . The main fields of V.G. Shukhov's creative work were the invention and creation of the equipment for oil industry, the steel building structures and heat machines. V.G. Shukhov was the author and technical leader of the construction of the first oil pipelines in Russia, the inventor of the world's first industrial plant for oil cracking, world's first steel hyperboloid towers, lattice shells, hanging steel lattice overhead covers, tubular steam boilers, air lift, black oil burner. The full list of the Great engineer's developments takes dozens of pages. V.G. Shukhov was a many-sided person and his creative works were not confined just by technical achievements. He was keen on theatre, sport and art photography. The heritage of the Great master is alive as long as it is used by the new generations. The theoretical and practical development of the oil hydraulics fundamentals and the construction of pipeline systems, stated in the works of V.G. Shukhov, is used until now during the construction of trunk oil pipelines. Today the development of modern technologies of gasoline production and of the plants for oil cracking has gone far ahead, but many elements first invented by V.G. Shukhov remain the basis of their structures. New hyperboloid towers were recently built in Japan, Czechia, Spain and Switzerland. The architect Ken Shuttleworth designed the three hundred meter hyperboloid skyscraper "VORTEX" that is to be built in London. Nowadays, the heritage of V.G. Shukhov in the construction of the unique hanging and lattice shells structures is developed by the architectural schools of Frei Otto and Norman Foster. These structures are widespread in the modern European and Japanese architecture. The Foundation's ideology and values, its goals, tasks and program correspond with the ideology and many-sided activities of Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov and with the topical problems of science, culture and art of our time. The preservation and promotion of V.G. Shukhov's heritage, the initiatives for the preservation of Shukhov's structures in the regions of Russia and CIS, the cultural and socially significant projects in small towns of Russia and the creation of Shukhov center in Moscow may be considered among the Foundation's main current tasks. The Shukhov Tower Foundation invites the interested parties for the mutually beneficial cooperation to realize joint projects. Yours respectfully, Vladimir Fyodorovich Shukhov President of the Foundation. 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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