The Adziogol Lighthouse[3] (Ukrainian: Аджигольський маяк), also known as Stanislav–Adzhyhol Lighthouse or Stanislav Range Rear light, is one of two vertical lattice hyperboloid structures of steel bars, serving as active lighthouses in Dnieper Estuary, Ukraine. It is located about 30 km (19 mi) west of the city of Kherson. At a height of 211 feet (64 m), it is the sixteenth-tallest "traditional lighthouse" in the world[4] as well as the tallest in Ukraine.

Stanislav-Adziogol Lighthouse

Adziogol Lighthouse, 1911
Location	Kherson Oblast Ukraine
Coordinates	46°29′32.54″N 32°13′57.35″E
Tower
Constructed	1911
Foundation	concrete base
Construction	skeletal steel
Height	211 feet (64 m)[1]
Shape	circular hyperboloid tower with central cylinder, double balcony and lantern
Markings	red tower
Operator	Derzhhydrohrafiya
Light
Focal height	221 feet (67 m)[2]
Range	19 nautical miles (35 km; 22 mi)
Characteristic	F W on request, visible only on range line
Ukraine no.	UA-1001

Location

It is located on a concrete pier on a tiny islet in the combined Dnieper-Bug Estuary, which extends eastward into the Dnieper Estuary, a part of the Dnieper River delta, about 2.5 km (1.6 mi) north of the village of Rybalche (Skadovsk Raion) and south of the Cape of Adzhyhol, for which it is named. Together with the Stanislav Range Front Light (Small Adzhyhol Lighthouse), it serves as a range light, guiding ships entering the Dnieper River or the Southern Buh River within the vast Dnieper-Bug Estuary.

Details

The lighthouse was designed in 1910[5] and built in 1911 by Vladimir Shukhov. The one-story keeper's house sits inside the base of the tower.

The site of the tower is accessible only by boat. The site is open to the public but the tower is closed.

See also

• List of lighthouses in Ukraine
• Thin-shell structure
• List of hyperboloid structures
• List of thin shell structures
• List of tallest lighthouses in the world

References

Further reading

• Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Russia: Crimea (Krym)". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• List of Lights, Pub. 113: The West Coasts of Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and Azovskoye More (Sea of Azov) (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2009. p. 311.
• "Adziogol Lighthouse – Vladimir G. Schuchov – Great Buildings Online". greatbuildings.com. Archived from the original on 26 August 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
• Rainer Graefe: “Vladimir G. Šuchov 1853–1939 – Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.”, S.192, Stuttgart, DVA, 1990, ISBN 3-421-02984-9.
• Peter Gössel, Gabriele Leuthäuser, Eva Schickler: “Architecture in the 20th century”, Taschen Verlag; 1990, ISBN 3-8228-1162-9 and ISBN 3-8228-0550-5
• Kevin Matthews, "The Great Buildings Collection", CD-ROM, Artifice, 2001, ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.
• Elizabeth Cooper English: “Arkhitektura i mnimosti”: The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition”, a dissertation in architecture, 264p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.

External links

• Media related to Adziogol Lighthouse at Wikimedia Commons
• Adziogol Lighthouse – video, 2010
• Photos of Adzhyhol Lighthouse.
• Adzhyhol lighthouses and the mouth of Dnieper. VeniVidi.ru

На других языках

[es] Faro de Adziogol

[ru] Аджигольский маяк