Vladimir Shukhov
| Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov Владимир Григорьевич Шухов |
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Shukhov, 1891
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| Born | 28 August [O.S. 16 August] 1853 Grayvoron, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 2 February 1939 (aged 85) Moscow, RSFSR, USSR |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Education | Imperial Moscow Technical Institute |
| Spouse(s) | Anna Nikolayevna Shukhova |
| Children | Sergey, Flaviy, Vladimir |
| Parent(s) | Grigory Shukhov Vera Shukhova |
| Engineering career | |
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Civil engineer Structural engineer |
| Projects |
Polibino Tower Adziogol Lighthouse Shukhov Tower Oka River Tower |
| Significant design |
Shukhov Rotunda Pushkin Museum GUM Kiyevsky railway station |
Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov (Russian: Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Шу́хов; 28 August [O.S. 16 August] 1853 – 2 February 1939) was a Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of the world's first hyperboloid structures,diagrid shell structures,tensile structures,gridshell structures,oil reservoirs, pipelines, boilers, ships and barges. He is also the inventor of the first cracking method.
Besides the innovations he brought to the oil industry and the construction of numerous bridges and buildings, Shukhov was the inventor of a new family of doubly curved structural forms. These forms, based on non-Euclidean hyperbolic geometry, are known today as hyperboloids of revolution. Shukhov developed not only many varieties of light-weight hyperboloid towers and roof systems, but also the mathematics for their analysis. Shukhov is particularly reputed for his original designs of hyperboloid towers such as the Shukhov Tower.
Vladimir Shukhov was born in a town of Graivoron, Belgorod uezd, Kursk Governorate (in present-day Belgorod Oblast) into a petty noble family. His father Grigory Ivanovich Shukhov was a minor government official, promoted for his efforts in the Crimean War. For a while, Grigory served as Mayor of Graivoron and later as an administrator in Warsaw.
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