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The Adziogol Lighthouse (), also known as Stanislav–Adzhyhol Lighthouse or Stanislav Range Rear light, is one of two vertical lattice
It is located on a concrete pier on a tiny islet in the combined Dnieper-Bug Estuary, which extends eastward into the Dnieper Estuary, a part of the
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.
Adziogol Lighthouse
– video, 2010
Photos of Adzhyhol Lighthouse
Adzhyhol lighthouses and the mouth of Dnieper
. VeniVidi.ru {{Authority control 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
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 grou ...
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 lens (optics), lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
Ligh ...
s in Dnieper Estuary, Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...
. It is located about west of the city of Kherson
Kherson (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and , , ) is a port city in southern Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located by the Black Sea and on the Dnieper, Dnieper River, Kherson is the home to a major ship-bui ...
. 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, a part of the Dnieper River
The Dnieper or Dnepr ( ), also called 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. Approximately long, with ...
delta, about north of the village of Rybalche (Skadovsk Raion
Skadovsk Raion () is one of the five administrative raions of Ukraine, raions (districts) of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. Its administrative center is located in the city of Skadovsk. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the 2020 admi ...
) and south of the Cape of Adzhyhol, for which it is named. Together with the Stanislav Range Front Light
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Stanislav Range Front Light or Small Adzhyhol Lighthouse is an active lighthouse and range light, located on a concrete pier on a tiny islet about west northwest of Rybalche, about from Kherson, Ukraine. Together with Adziogol lighth ...
(Small Adzhyhol Lighthouse), it serves as a range light, guiding ships entering the Dnieper River or the Southern Buh River within the vast Dnieper-Bug Estuary.
Details
The lighthouse was designed in 1910 and built in 1911 byVladimir Shukhov
Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov (; – 2 February 1939) was a Russian and Soviet engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in indu ...
. 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.
On 22 July 2022, the lighthouse was damaged by a Russian missile attack, 3 rockets hit the lighthouse.
See also
* List of lighthouses in Ukraine * Thin-shell structure *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 (hyperboloid, hyperbolic Thin-shell structure, shell) f ...
*List of thin shell structures
Thin-shell structures are lightweight constructions using List of structural elements, shell elements.
Notable projects
Asia/Pacific
* Nagoya Dome, Nagoya, Japan
* Parish of the Holy Sacrifice at the University of the Philippines Diliman, ...
*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
* * *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
*Adziogol Lighthouse
– video, 2010
Photos of Adzhyhol Lighthouse
Adzhyhol lighthouses and the mouth of Dnieper
. VeniVidi.ru {{Authority control 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