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The Adziogol Lighthouse ( uk, Аджигольський маяк), also known as Stanislav–Adzhyhol Lighthouse or Stanislav Range Rear light, is one of two vertical lattice
hyperboloid structure
Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed using a hyperboloid in one sheet. Often these are tall structures, such as towers, where the hyperboloid geometry's structural strength is used to support an object high above the gro ...
s of steel bars, serving as active
lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
Lighthouses mar ...
s in
Dnieper Estuary
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,
Ukraine
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. It is located about west of the city of
Kherson
Kherson (, ) is a port city of Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers appr ...
. At a height of , it is the sixteenth-tallest "traditional lighthouse" in the world as well as the tallest in Ukraine.
Location
It is located on a concrete pier on a tiny islet in the combined
Dnieper-Bug Estuary, which extends eastward into the
Dnieper Estuary
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, a part of the
Dnieper River
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The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine and B ...
delta, about north of the village of Rybalche (
Skadovsk Raion
Skadovsk Raion ( uk, Скадовський район) is one of the 5 administrative raions (a Raions of Ukraine, ''district'') of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. Its administrative center is located in the city of Skadovsk. Population:
On ...
) and south of the
Cape of Adzhyhol, for which it is named. Together with the
Stanislav Range Front Light (Small Adzhyhol Lighthouse), it serves as a
range light
Leading lights (also known as range lights in the United States) are a pair of light beacons used in navigation to indicate a safe passage for vessels entering a shallow or dangerous channel; they may also be used for position fixing. At night ...
, guiding ships entering the Dnieper River or the
Southern Buh
, ''Pivdennyi Buh''
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River within the vast
Dnieper-Bug Estuary.
Details
The lighthouse was designed in 1910
and built in 1911 by
Vladimir Shukhov
Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov (russian: link=no, Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Шу́хов; – 2 February 1939) was a Russian Empire and Soviet engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new ...
. The one-story keeper's house sits inside the base of the tower.
The site of the tower is accessible only by boat. The site is open to the public but the tower is closed.
See also
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List of lighthouses in Ukraine
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Thin-shell structure
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List of hyperboloid structures
This page is a list of hyperboloid structures. These were first applied in architecture by Russian engineer Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939). Shukhov built his first example as a water tower (hyperbolic shell) for the 1896 All-Russian Exposition. ...
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List of thin shell structures
Thin-shell structures are lightweight constructions using shell elements.
Notable projects
Asia/Pacific
* Nagoya Dome, Nagoya, Japan
* Parish of the Holy Sacrifice at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
* ...
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List of tallest lighthouses in the world
This is a list of the tallest lighthouses, by tower height (as opposed to focal height, i.e. height of the lamp of a lighthouse from water level). The list includes only "traditional lighthouses", as defined by ''The Lighthouse Directory'', i.e. bu ...
References
Further reading
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Rainer Graefe S.192, Stuttgart, DVA, 1990,
* Peter Gössel, Gabriele Leuthäuser, Eva Schickler
“Architecture in the 20th century” Taschen Verlag; 1990, and
* Kevin Matthews
CD-ROM, Artifice, 2001, .
“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
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Adziogol Lighthouse– video, 2010
Photos of Adzhyhol Lighthouse
Adzhyhol lighthouses and the mouth of Dnieper VeniVidi.ru
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Lighthouses completed in 1911
Lattice shell structures by Vladimir Shukhov
Hyperboloid structures
High-tech architecture
Lighthouses in Ukraine
Dnieper–Bug estuary
Towers in Ukraine
Buildings and structures in Kherson Oblast
1911 establishments in the Russian Empire