Vladimir Shukhov

Vladimir Shukhov
Владимир Шухов
Shukhov, 1891
Born	28 August [O.S. 16 August] 1853 Grayvoron, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	2 February 1939(1939-02-02) (aged 85) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Education	Imperial Moscow Technical Institute
Occupation	Engineer
Spouse	Anna Nikolayevna Shukhova
Children	Sergey, Flaviy, Vladimir
Parent(s)	Grigory Shukhov Vera Shukhova
Engineering career
Discipline	Civil engineer Structural engineer
Projects	Polibino Tower Adziogol Lighthouse Shukhov Tower Oka River Tower
Significant design	Shukhov Rotunda Pushkin Museum GUM Kiyevsky railway station Novo-Ryazanskaya Garage Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage
Awards	Lenin Prize (1929)

Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov (Russian: Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Шу́хов; 28 August [O.S. 16 August] 1853 – 2 February 1939) was a Russian and Soviet engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of the world's first hyperboloid structures,^[1] diagrid shell structures,^[2] tensile structures,^[2] gridshell structures,^[2] oil reservoirs, pipelines, boilers, ships and barges. He is also the inventor of the first cracking method.

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 doubly curved structural forms. These forms, based on non-Euclidean hyperbolic geometry, are known today as hyperboloids of revolution. Shukhov developed not only many varieties of light-weight hyperboloid towers and roof systems, but also the mathematics for their analysis. Shukhov is particularly reputed for his original designs of hyperboloid towers such as the Shukhov Tower.