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Died
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Nationality
Languages
Russian
Residences
Nauchnye Rabotniki Cooperative Apartment Building
Education
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Imperial Moscow Technical School
Zodiac Sign
♍ Virgo
Chinese Zodiac
牛 Ox
Name Origin
English < Proto-Indo-European (*h₂welh₁-)
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Vladimir Shukhov: Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect (1853-1939).
Born in Grayvoron (died at age 85).
2 awards including Hero of Labour.
Studied at Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
AWARDS (2)
B
Hero of Labour
WON
B
Lenin Prize
WON
Biography
Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov 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, diagrid shell structures, tensile structures, gridshell structures, oil reservoirs, pipelines, boilers, ships and barges. He is also the inventor of the first cracking method.
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Vladimir Shukhov was born in Grayvoron.
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