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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.
The Shukhov Tower Foundation invites you to take part in the realization of the following projects:
The creation of monument is financed by the oil company "Lukoil". The monument will be installed under the decision of the Moscow Government. The Union of scientific and engineering organizations of Russia, MGTU after N.E. Bauman and the Shukhov Tower Foundation initiated the erection of the monument to V.G. Shukhov in Moscow. We collect the means for festal arrangements related to the opening of the monument.
The project envisages the creation of a modern business center and a cultural complex in Moscow. The main thematic trends of the Shukhov center's activities must correspond with the many-sided creative heritage of V.G. Shukhov.
The establishing of the V.G. Shukhov prize for new technical developments in the field of oil extraction and for the implementation of progressive technologies in the fuel-energy sector.
In 2007 the Shukhov Tower will be 85 and it needs a serious expertise and restoration. It is expedient to restore the tower with the participation of the leading domestic and foreign specialists, the competent scientific institutions and public organizations. The experience of restoring the unique architectural buildings dictates the necessity to create the adequate surrounding infrastructure, proper visual esthetic presenting of the object on the adjacent territory, and to draw serious investments.
The creation of an interactive system to reveal and develop the gifted children to prepare them for entering the foremost profile institutes in order to work in the future in the best companies of Russia. It is planned to create special interactive resources on the Internet, the teaching and testing programs for personal computers, the special video programs, to organize the TV program-contest: "Young talents of Russia" and the educational TV channel.
The Maecenases and companies interested in the creation of the qualified staff reserve are invited to take part in the financing of the project.
The Foundation invites to discuss the projects and to cooperate in their realization. You can forward your letters to the following E-mail address: info@shukhov.ru. The most interesting proposals and initiatives will be advertised on our web site
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