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Владимир Шухов родился в городе Грайворон Белгородского уезда Курской губернии (ныне Белгородская область) в мелкой дворянской семье. Его отец Григорий Шухов был мелким государственным чиновником, способствовал его усилиям в Крымской войне. Некоторое время Григорий служил мэром Грайворона, а затем администратором в Варшаве...
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In 1864 Vladimir entered St. Petersburg gymnasium from which he graduated with distinction in 1871 During his high school years he showed mathematical talents, once demonstrating to his classmates and teacher an original proof of the Pythagorean theorem. The teacher praised his skills but he failed the grade for violating the guidelines of the textbook.
After graduating from the gymnasium, Shukhov entered the Imperial Moscow Technical School in which his teachers mcluded Pafnuty Chebyshev, Aleksey Letnikov, and Nikolay Zhukovsky. In 1876 Shukhov graduated from the school with distinction and a Gold Medal. Chebyshev proposed him a job as a lecturer in mathematics at the Imperial Moscow Technical School, but Shukhov decided to seek a job in the industry instead.
Thereupon Shukhov went to Philadelphia to work on the Russian pavilion at the World’s Fair and to study the inner workings of the Amencan industry. During his stay in the US Shukhov came to know a Russian-Amencan entrepreneur, Alexander Bari who also worked on the organization of the Fair.
In 1877 Shukhov returned to Russia and joined the drafting office of the Warsaw-Vienna railroad. Within several months, Shukhov’s frustration with standard and routine engineenng made him abandon the office and join a military-medical academy. On his coming to Russia in 1877, Ban persuaded Shukhov to give up his medical education and to assume the office of Chief Engineer in a new company specializing in innovative engineering. Shukhov worked with Ban for this company until the October Revolution Their works revolutionized many areas of civil engineering, ship engineenng, and oil industry. The thermal cracking method, the Shukhov cracking process, was patented by Vladimir Shukhov in 1891.
Shukhov always found time for a passionate hobby — photography. The photographic works of Shukhov opened new trends ahead of their flourishing of fine art photography. He made photos in vanous genres: city landscape, portrait, constructivism. About two thousand photos and negatives made by Shukhov have survived until this day.
After the October Revolution Shukhov decided to stay in the Soviet Union despite having received alluringjob offers from around the world. Many signal Soviet engineering projects of the 1920s were associated with his name. In 1919 he framed his slogan: “We should work independently from politics. The buildings, boilers, beams are needed and so are we”. In the later 1930s he retired from engineenng work. Shukov died on February 2, 1939 in Moscow and was buned at the Novodevichy Cemetery.