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The Orlov Water Tower.
The Orlov Water Tower.
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Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/Monuments of history and culture
The Orlov Water Tower was built according to the design of architect A.F. Vidov in 1887 in the outlying district of the Babolovsky Park, it was one of two historic water-lifting buildings of Tsarskoye Selo. Reservoirs for water were placed in the tower of 30 metres high. Two detached wings were constructed for an electric machine and for a keeper. The complex was connected with Taitsi water supply system and later it was connected with the Orlov and underground accumulative reservoirs. The splendid architectural decoration of facades in the Gothic eclecticism forms and considerable height attach significance of the composition dominant point to the building. The Orlov Tower, as well as the Pevchesky Tower built by A.F. Vidov, is an expressive early for Petersburg example of a water-lifting building and electric station.
Authors
Semenova Galina Victorovna
Persons
Vidov Alexander Fomich
Addresses
Parkovaya Street/Pushkin, town
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1887
14 March. The Emperor approval was got for making the electric lighting in Tsarskoye Selo.
The Pevcheskaya (Ghorus) and Orlov Water Towers were built according to the design by the architect A.F. Vidov
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Source: Tsarskoe Selo
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1905
19 January. In the Alexander Palace Nicholas II received the workers deputation after the incident "Bloody Sunday" on 9 January in Petersburg. 50 000 roubles were assigned for the families of suffered men, this was told during the meeting.
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Source: Tsarskoe Selo
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1970-1972
The building company UNR-53 carried out the repairing works on the track of the Orlov Water Supply System; 16 additional wells were bored, fifteen kilometres of the track with pipes of large diameter was laid, the Orlov Water Tower was modernized
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Source: Tsarskoe Selo
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