The Pevchesky Water Tower

Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/Monuments of history and culture
The building with thirty-metre tower intended for a water-lifting and electric power station was built in 1887 to the design of A.F. Vidov. The building was named after the name of former Pevchesky (now – Litseysky) Lane. The station was equipped with boilers and pumps made at the plant of F. San-Galli. The engineer- technologist M.I. Altukhov developed a project of the new water pipe line with cast iron pipes as well as changing the old wooden and ceramic pipes. The electric lighting of Tsarskoye Selo was started in the same 1887 when the tower was linked up to the town water line. Pumps, pumped water into the tower water-supply tank, at the same time put electric generators in action. The first alternating-current generators of the “Hanz and Co” system were installed by the engineer Grinevich, the electric lighting system was made by the engineer-technologist V.L. Pashkov. In the 1900s the all original electric equipment was changed with other mechanisms worked independently of steam pumps according to the design of the engineer L.R. Shvede. From the 1920s until 1950s the Pevchesky Water Tower was being a reserve electric power station and till recently it was used as a water tower. Semenova Galina Victorovna
Altukhov, Mikhail Ivanovich
Grinevich
Pashkov V.L.
Shvede, L.R.
Vidov Alexander Fomich
Litseisky Lane/Pushkin, town