Shukhov Tower in Cherkasy

Passing the premises of public utility "Cherkasyvodokanal" Nev Aulnay pay attention to high openwork metal tower. This design is 100 years old, because water canal and Cherkasy is one of the oldest in Ukraine.

However, during the Second World War, the German occupiers piled tower, but then it is a unique creation was restored.

Name of the inventor of the water tower in Cherkassy, ​​original Russian engineer Vladimir Shukhov, is in line with Eiffel - the author of the well-known throughout the world of the Eiffel Tower . TV Tower Moscow Shabolovka - also creation Shukhov. It was her hyperboloid (netted) design was inspired by the famous writer Alexei Tolstoy`s writing a book "The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin".

Now the water tower in Cherkassy is not used, but its design actively interested scientists. There is an initiative to include Shukhov Tower in the World Heritage List of UNESCO.