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Vladimir Shukhov, Russian architect and engineer, designed the Adziogol Lighthouse (died 1939)

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Vladimir Shukhov

Russian polymath, engineer, scientist and architect (1853–1939)

Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov was a Russian and Soviet engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of the world's first hyperboloid structures,…
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Adziogol Lighthouse

Lighthouse

The Adziogol Lighthouse, also known as Stanislav–Adzhyhol Lighthouse or Stanislav Range Rear light, is one of two vertical lattice hyperboloid structures of steel bars, serving as active lighthouses in Dnieper Estuary, Ukraine. It is located about 30 km (19 mi) west of the city…
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