The Shukhov Tower Foundation

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News:

"They are ... cast into the shade by Richard Pare’s vertiginous photograph of the first permanent industrial structure to be built in Russia after 1917, the Shabolovka Radio Tower, designed in 1922 by Vladimir Shukhov. Its elegant steel trussses floated high over the still low-rise skyline of Moscow, and the archival images (pictured below, Havski-Shabolovskii residential block, with Shabolovka Radio Tower, photographer unknown, 1929, Dept of Photographs, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow) and Pare’s extraordinary interior shot show how stark its modernity must have appeared at the time."

03 Nov

The Russian Revolution unleashed a massive burst of creative energy among avant-garde artists and architects, who aspired to build a brave new world with radical and iconoclastic imagery. Arkady Ostrovsky charts the rise and fall of the Russian Constructivists, while on the following pages we assess the impact of the iconic yet unrealised Tatlin’s Tower, and the varying fortunes of Russia’s avant-garde buildings

20 Sep

19 Sep

28 Aug

On August 28 Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov, the Great engineer, architect and scientist was 158. Gridshells and hyperboloid towers created and patented by Shukhov in 1896 are used in XXI century all over the world.

26 Aug

“Russian heritage” foundation — The Address of the initiators of the foundation establishment.

12 Aug

As part of preparations for the scientific-practical conference on the preservation and use of Shukhov’s Gridshells in Vyksa, tentatively planned for September 29-30, 2011, in order to arrange the work of the Expert Committee there were examined the Shukhov Gridshell and Shukhov tower.

Your donation will help the Sukhov Tower Foundation!

In 2007, under the initiative of the Union of Scientific and Engineering Associations (USEA) of Russia, Moscow State Technical University n.a. N.E. Bauman (MSTU) and the Shukhov Tower Foundation the monument to the ingenious Russian engineer Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov will be erected in the Sretensky boulevard in Moscow.

The initiative has found support in the Government of Moscow. The Moscow mayor Yuriy Mikhailovich Luzhkov has made a decision to erect the monument to Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov.

The financial support is needed to erect the monument.

We will be grateful to everybody who participates in immortalizing the memory of our great compatriot.

The President of the Union of Scientific and Engineering Associations
The Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences
Y.V. Gulyaev

Rector of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University
The Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences
Professor
I.B. Fedorov

Director of the Shukhov Tower Foundation
V.F. Shukhov

Bank requisites to transfer a donation:
The purpose of payment should be as follows: The "Monument" project,
"Shukhov tower" Foundation
State register number № 1037789031884
SWIFT the Ost-West Handelsbank AG, Frankfurt/Main - OWHBDEFF,
SWIFT the Russian-German Trade Bank, Ltd. - RHADRUMM,
In f/o - "organization name"
USD account № 40703840000003606100
EUR account № 40703978600003606100
Tel.: (+7 095) 797-7916
Fax: (+7 095) 926-5807
E-mail: info@shukhov.ru
http://www.shukhov.ru/

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: 05 Nov "They are ... cast into the shade by Richard Pare’s vertiginous photograph of the first permanent industrial structure to be built in Russia after 1917, the Shabolovka Radio Tower, designed in 1922 by Vladimir Shukhov. Its elegant steel trussses floated high over the still low-rise skyline of Moscow, and the archival images (pictured below, Havski-Shabolovskii residential block, with Shabolovka Radio Tower, photographer unknown, 1929, Dept of Photographs, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow) and Pare’s extraordinary interior shot show how stark its modernity must have appeared at the time." 03 Nov The Russian Revolution unleashed a massive burst of creative energy among avant-garde artists and architects, who aspired to build a brave new world with radical and iconoclastic imagery. Arkady Ostrovsky charts the rise and fall of the Russian Constructivists, while on the following pages we assess the impact of the iconic yet unrealised Tatlin’s Tower, and the varying fortunes of Russia’s avant-garde buildings 20 Sep 19 Sep 28 Aug On August 28 Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov, the Great engineer, architect and scientist was 158. Gridshells and hyperboloid towers created and patented by Shukhov in 1896 are used in XXI century all over the world. 26 Aug “Russian heritage” foundation — The Address of the initiators of the foundation establishment. 12 Aug As part of preparations for the scientific-practical conference on the preservation and use of Shukhov’s Gridshells in Vyksa, tentatively planned for September 29-30, 2011, in order to arrange the work of the Expert Committee there were examined the Shukhov Gridshell and Shukhov tower.	Foundation	Projects	Ideas	V. G. Shukhov	Tower	Contacts
	Your donation will help the Sukhov Tower Foundation!

	In 2007, under the initiative of the Union of Scientific and Engineering Associations (USEA) of Russia, Moscow State Technical University n.a. N.E. Bauman (MSTU) and the Shukhov Tower Foundation the monument to the ingenious Russian engineer Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov will be erected in the Sretensky boulevard in Moscow. The initiative has found support in the Government of Moscow. The Moscow mayor Yuriy Mikhailovich Luzhkov has made a decision to erect the monument to Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov. The financial support is needed to erect the monument. We will be grateful to everybody who participates in immortalizing the memory of our great compatriot. The President of the Union of Scientific and Engineering Associations The Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences Y.V. Gulyaev Rector of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University The Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences Professor I.B. Fedorov Director of the Shukhov Tower Foundation V.F. Shukhov Bank requisites to transfer a donation: The purpose of payment should be as follows: The "Monument" project, "Shukhov tower" Foundation State register number № 1037789031884 SWIFT the Ost-West Handelsbank AG, Frankfurt/Main - OWHBDEFF, SWIFT the Russian-German Trade Bank, Ltd. - RHADRUMM, In f/o - "organization name" USD account № 40703840000003606100 EUR account № 40703978600003606100 Tel.: (+7 095) 797-7916 Fax: (+7 095) 926-5807 E-mail: info@shukhov.ru http://www.shukhov.ru/ 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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