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Shukhov Tower in Polibino

Russia

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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The Shukhov Tower in Polibino, designed in 1896 by Russian engineer and architect Vladimir Shukhov, is the world's first diagrid hyperboloid structure. The tower is today located in the former estate of Yury Nechaev-Maltsov in the selo of Polibino in Lipetsk Oblast in Russia.

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Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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