Adziogol Lighthouse

This article is about Stanislav Range Rear Light. For a neighboring hyperbolic structure, see Stanislav Range Front Light.

Adziogol Lighthouse
Stanislaus-Adzhyholskyy Range Rear

Adziogol Lighthouse, 1911
Kherson Oblast
Location	Kherson Oblast Ukraine
Coordinates
Year first constructed	1911
Foundation	concrete basement
Construction	skeletal steel
Tower shape	circular hyperboloid tower with central cylinder, double balcony and lantern
Markings / pattern	red tower
Height	211 feet (64 m)
Focal height	221 feet (67 m)
Range	19 nautical miles (35 km; 22 mi)
Characteristic	F W on request, visible only on range line
Admiralty number	E5149.1
NGA number	113-18092
ARLHS number	UKR-102,
Ukraine number	UA-1001
Managing agent	Gosgidrografiya

Adziogol Lighthouse (Ukrainian: Аджигольський маяк; Russian: Аджигольский маяк), 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 kilometres (19 mi) west from Kherson city. At a height of 211 feet (64 m) it is the sixteenth tallest "traditional lighthouse" in the world as well as the tallest in Ukraine.

It is located on a concrete pier on a tiny islet within the combined Dnieper-Bug Estuary which extends eastward into Dnieper Estuary, a part of Dnieper River delta, about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) north of Rybalche village (Hola Prystan Raion) and south of the Cape of Adzhyhol. Its name Adzhyhol derives from a cape with similar name located in the close vicinity. Together with Stanislav Range Front Light (Small Adzhyhol Lighthouse) it serves as a range light, guiding ships entering the Dnieper River or the Southern Buh river within a vast Dnieper-Bug Estuary.

The lighthouse was designed in 1910 and built in 1911 by Vladimir Shukhov. The 1-story keeper's house is built within the base.

The site of the tower is accessible only by boat. The site is open to the public but the tower is closed.

See also

• List of lighthouses in Ukraine
• Thin-shell structure
• List of hyperboloid structures
• List of thin shell structures
• List of tallest lighthouses in the world

Further reading

• Rainer Graefe: “Vladimir G. Šuchov 1853–1939 – Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.”, S.192, Stuttgart, DVA, 1990, ISBN 3-421-02984-9. [1]
• Peter Gössel, Gabriele Leuthäuser, Eva Schickler: “Architecture in the 20th century”, Taschen Verlag; 1990, ISBN 3-8228-1162-9 and ISBN 3-8228-0550-5
• Kevin Matthews, "The Great Buildings Collection", CD-ROM, Artifice, 2001, ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.
• Elizabeth Cooper English: “Arkhitektura i mnimosti”: The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition”, a dissertation in architecture, 264p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.

External links

• Adziogol Lighthouse – video, 2010
• Photos of Adzhyhol lighthouse.
• Adzhyhol lighthouses and the mouth of Dnieper. VeniVidi.ru