File:Shukhov Tower photo by Vladimir Tomilov.jpg
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Summary
The hyperboloid <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shukhov_Oka_Towers" title="Category:Shukhov Oka Towers">Shukhov Oka Towers</a>, on the west bank of the Oka River in central <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Russia">Russia</a>.
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- The 1929 Soviet Union era <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lattice_steel_pylons" title="Category:Lattice steel pylons">lattice steel electricity pylons</a> allowed transmission lines to cross the Oka River, and they were designed and engineered by the great Russian scientist Vladimir Shukhov (1853-1939).
- The remaining one of the two is on the west bank of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Oka_River" title="Category:Oka River">Oka River</a> near Dzerzhinsk, in Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast (east tower illegally demolished for scrap steel—2005). The west tower is the world’s only surviving hyperboloid electricity pylon.
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| current | 15:23, 5 January 2017 | | 1,230 × 2,048 (2.05 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | The hyperboloid <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shukhov_Oka_Towers" title="Category:Shukhov Oka Towers">Shukhov Oka Towers</a>, on the west bank of the Oka River in central <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Russia">Russia</a>. <dl><dd><ul> <li>The 1929 Soviet Union era <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lattice_steel_pylons" title="Category:Lattice steel pylons">lattice steel electricity pylons</a> allowed transmission lines to cross the Oka River, and they were designed and engineered by the great Russian scientist Vladimir Shukhov (1853-1939).</li> <li>The remaining one of the two is on the west bank of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Oka_River" title="Category:Oka River">Oka River</a> near Dzerzhinsk, in Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast (east tower illegally demolished for scrap steel—2005). The west tower is the world’s only surviving hyperboloid electricity pylon.</li> </ul></dd></dl> |
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