The Orlov Water Tower.

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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. Semenova Galina Victorovna
Vidov Alexander Fomich
Parkovaya Street/Pushkin, town