On the left Bank of the Oka river on the outskirts of Dzerzhinsk is a unique architectural structure - the Shukhov tower. 128-meter hyperboloid delicate tower of steel was built by engineer Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov in 1929.

Architectural structure is a multi-sectional support transmission line, made in the form of bearing steel gridshells. A 25-metre sections, in the form of a strip which the hyperboloids of revolution, made of straight profile, resting the ends of the annular base. On the upper section mounted design with steel bar length eighteen meters, used for fastening the three high-voltage wires. The base of the tower is a circular concrete Foundation with a diameter of thirty meters.

The project of the great Russian engineer from 1927 to 1929, was built six hyperbolic poles holding the multi-ton power lines: two twenty-meter support, two by sixty feet and two left-Bank supports transmission line 128 meters. In 1989, 60 - and 20-meter piers were dismantled, and two 128-metre towers were left as a legacy of the outstanding Russian engineer-scientist. In may 2005, was barbarously demolished for scrap one of the monuments of technical ideas, built in eye.

In our days the Shukhov tower, which served more than seventy years, merely tourist and historical functions. According to the principle devices Shukhov hyperboloid towers were built hundreds of buildings in Japan, Switzerland and Spain. In Russia the most famous Shukhov tower is located on Shabolovka in Moscow, built in the 1920-ies technically inferior to Nizhny Novgorod.

High-rise tower on the outskirts of Dzerzhinsk was declared a monument of cultural heritage and unique technical structure, being studied by all architectural institutions in the world.