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Shukhov tower on the Oka River

Dzerzhinsk, Russia

The 158th tallest tower in the world

128 m · 420 ft

The Shukhov Tower on the Oka River (also Dzerzhinsk High-Voltage Mast, Shukhov Oka Tower) is one of the world’s two (the other being the Shukhov Tower built between 1920-1922 in Moscow) diagrid hyperboloid transmission tower. It is located in Russia, in the western suburbs of Nizhny Novgorod, on the left bank of the Oka River near Dzerzhinsk (about 12km away from the city center, near Dachny village). The tower is one of several structures designed by Russian engineer and scientist Vladimir Shukhov; its power lines, however, were decommissioned in 1989.

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

More tall towers in Russia

  1. Ostankino Tower540.1 m
  2. Saint Petersburg TV Tower326 m
  3. Novorossiysk TV Tower261.4 m
  4. main building of Moscow State University235 m
  5. Shukhov Tower160 m

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