Stanislav-Adziogol Lighthouse, Leading light in Oleksandrivka, Ukraine.
The Stanislav-Adziogol Lighthouse is a 64-metre steel lattice hyperboloid tower on a concrete pier on a tiny islet in the Dnieper Estuary, about 30 km west of Kherson. Thin dark metal members form a dense mesh of verticals and horizontals, with curved rings stacked from base to top around a solid central core. A one-storey keeper's house sits inside the base.
The renowned engineer Vladimir Shukhov designed this maritime structure in 1910, and construction was completed in 1911 to guide vessels through the Dnieper delta. The innovative hyperboloid design demonstrated early examples of modern engineering from the early 20th century.
The lighthouse is named after Cape Adzhyhol, which lies south of its islet in the Dnieper Estuary. It works as the rear light of a pair with the 34-metre Small Adzhyhol Lighthouse, built at the same time, so ships entering the Dnieper or Southern Buh rivers line up the two towers. The keeper's house sits inside the base of the tower.
The site can be reached only by boat, about 2.5 km north of Rybalche on a tiny islet in the Dnieper Estuary. The grounds are open to the public, but the tower itself is closed, so the structure is seen from outside. The keeper's one-story house sits inside the base of the tower.
The tower was a first: Shukhov tested the lattice node details here before using them on his 148-metre Moscow radio tower. The keeper's one-storey house sits inside the base of the steel shell. On 22 July 2022 three Russian rockets hit the lighthouse, damaging but not destroying it.
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