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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


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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.




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The Shukhov Tower Foundation invites you to take part in the realization of the following projects:

  • The erection of monument to V.G. Shukhov in Moscow.
    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 creation of the Shukhov center in Moscow.
    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.
  • The restoration of the Shukhov Tower in Moscow.
    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 Internet, cinema and TV projects; the publishing, educational and entertaining projects for the purpose of drawing finances for the realization of the Foundation's program.
  • The publication of an album with photo-works of V.G. Shukhov
  • The project "Young talents of Russia".
    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 project to draw financing for the Russian higher school, scientific-research and academic institutes.
  • The creation of the intellect-park in the Moscow region and its promotion abroad in order to propagandize the Russian scientific-technical achievements and the Russian higher school at the world's level.
  • The realization of projects in the small- and medium-size towns of Russia (Graivoron, Myshkin, Krasnyi Holm, Galich). The development of exposition at the Museum of the antique and unique machinery on the basis of the museum of local lore in the town of Myshkin, Yaroslavl region.
  • The realization of projects aimed at the development of children's creative abilities.
  • The project "The Saints of Russian land with the eyes of children".
  • The development of the programs to draw investments for the preservation and restoration of the cultural-historical objects and the development of the tourist's infrastructure in the small towns of Russia.
  • The development of the network of Foundation's representatives in the towns of Russia and abroad.

    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

    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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