NIGRES power line mast on the Oka

NIGRES power line mast on the banks of the Oka , 2006

The Nigres power pylon (Pylon the Oka overhead line crossing Dzerzhinsk, Russian Шуховская башня на Оке, Опора ЛЭП НиГРЭС ) is a 128-meter hyperbolic pylon at Oka -Ufer at Dzerzhinsk .

The mast was erected in 1929 as one of two identical high-voltage line towers by the Russian engineer Vladimir Grigoryevich Schuchow . Due to the removal of the lines due to the relocation of the high-voltage line, the masts have been without function since 1989. Four smaller feed masts were demolished. In March 2005, one of the two remaining large masts was demolished.

Although the two large masts had to carry the load of the power line cables, they are even lighter and more finely divided than the Schuchow radio tower in Moscow . The gradual change in the lattice structure from bottom to top follows clearer rules.

See also

View through the longitudinal axis of a mast; on the left the 2nd mast still standing at the time

Both 128-meter masts, 1988

• Cádiz overhead line masts
• Adschihol lighthouse
• Loermcke tower

literature

• Rainer Graefe: Vladimir G. Šuchov 1853–1939 - The art of economical construction . DVA, Stuttgart 1990. p.192. (pdf)
• Elizabeth Cooper English: “Arkhitektura i mnimosti”: The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition . Dissertation. University of Pennsylvania, 2000. p. 264.

Web links

Commons : Schuchow masts of the Oka junction  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Construction form. Nigres power line mast (PDF file; 1.32 MB)
• NIGRES power line mast on the Oka. In: Structurae
• About towers by Vladimir Shukhov (video)

Coordinates: 56 ° 11 ′ 36.3 ″  N , 43 ° 32 ′ 35.2 ″  E