Meduza · 29 Sep 2026
Moscow is about to ‘restore’ its landmark 1922 Shukhov radio tower — by dismantling it and replacing almost all of its original steel
The Shabolovka Tower is engineer Vladimir Shukhov’s best-known structure. Once the Soviet Union’s main radio and television transmitter, it was a landmark engineering achievement of the New Economic Policy era and remains a defining feature of Moscow’s Shabolovka neighborhood. This fall, its owner,
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