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Shukhov Rotunda was a round exhibition pavilion built for All-Russia Exhibition 1896 in
Elizabeth C. 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, 264 p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000. * * * * Шухов В. Г.: Избранные труды, том 1, «Строительная механика», 192 стр., под ред. А. Ю. Ишлинского, Академия наук СССР, Москва, 1977. * Грефе Р. и др.:
«Мир», Москва, 1994, . * Шухова Е. М.: «Владимир Григорьевич Шухов. Первый инженер России.», 368 стр., Изд. МГТУ, Москва, 2003, {{ISBN, 978-5-7038-2295-1. Lattice shell structures by Vladimir Shukhov Tensile membrane structures Roof structures by Vladimir Shukhov Structural system Tensile architecture Rotundas in Europe Buildings and structures in Nizhny Novgorod Culture in Nizhny Novgorod
Shukhov Rotunda was a round exhibition pavilion built for All-Russia Exhibition 1896 in Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət, t=Lower Newtown; colloquially shortened to Nizhny) is a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast an ...
, Russia
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. It was built in 1896 with a diagrid hanging cover (tensile gridshell – diagrid roof
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, Russian Empire
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patent
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No. 1894, dated March 12, 1899) and was the world's first Hyperboloid structure (in the center of the Rotunda). It is named after Vladimir Shukhov, who designed it in 1895.
The Rotunda was high with a diameter of . The diameter of the steel membrane
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was .
The rotunda was subsequently moved to Yessentuki and demolished in the 1980s.
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* "The Nijni-Novgorod exhibition: Water tower, room under construction, springing of 91 feet span", "The Engineer", № 19.3.1897, P.292-294, London, 1897. *Elizabeth C. English
a dissertation in architecture, 264 p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000. * * * * Шухов В. Г.: Избранные труды, том 1, «Строительная механика», 192 стр., под ред. А. Ю. Ишлинского, Академия наук СССР, Москва, 1977. * Грефе Р. и др.:
«Мир», Москва, 1994, . * Шухова Е. М.: «Владимир Григорьевич Шухов. Первый инженер России.», 368 стр., Изд. МГТУ, Москва, 2003, {{ISBN, 978-5-7038-2295-1. Lattice shell structures by Vladimir Shukhov Tensile membrane structures Roof structures by Vladimir Shukhov Structural system Tensile architecture Rotundas in Europe Buildings and structures in Nizhny Novgorod Culture in Nizhny Novgorod