• Structure of the Roof of Upper Trading Rows by Vladimir Shukhov 1.JPG 1,600 × 1,200; 685 KB.
  • Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov (1853 – 1939) was a Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods...
  • Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov – ‘Great engineer-polymath, inventor, scientist and architect’ ‘[The Shukhov] tower is acknowledged as one of the most...
  • Once a symbol of revolutionary optimism and progress, Vladimir Shukhov’s masterpiece of light engineering now takes on an aspect of fragility.
  • The thermal cracking method, the Shukhov cracking process, was patented by Vladimir Shukhov in 1891.
  • Vladimir Shukhov was born in a town of Graivoron, Belgoroduezd, Kursk Governorate (in present-day Belgorod Oblast)into a petty noble family.
  • Vladimir Shukhov was born in a town of Graivoron, Belgoroduezd, Kursk Governorate (in present-day Belgorod Oblast)into a petty noble family.
  • Vladimir Shukhov is often referred as the Russian Thomas Edison for the sheer quantity and quality of his pioneering works .
  • 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...