Shukhov Tower in Polibino

[1][2][3][4] The tower is today located in the former estate of Yury Nechaev-Maltsov in the selo of Polibino in Lipetsk Oblast in Russia.

For the 1896 All-Russia industrial and art exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod he built the 37-meter (121 ft) steel diagrid tower, which became the first hyperboloid structure in the world.

[5] After the exhibition closed, the openwork tower was bought by a leading glassware manufacturer and art sponsor, Yury Nechaev-Maltsov.

In the subsequent years, Vladimir Shukhov developed numerous structures of various hyperboloid steel gridshells and used them in hundreds of water towers, sea lighthouses, masts of warships and supports for power transmission lines.

Similar hyperboloid structures appeared abroad only ten years after Shukhov's invention.

The world's first diagrid hyperboloid 37-meter water tower by Vladimir Shukhov , All-Russian Exposition , Nizhny Novgorod , Russia, 1896
The world's first hyperboloid structure in Polibino, 2009