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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Altukhov, Mikhail Ivanovich hidden The Pevchesky Water Tower | |
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 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.
Persons Altukhov, Mikhail Ivanovich Grinevich Shvede, L.R. Vidov Alexander Fomich
Addresses Litseisky Lane/Pushkin, town
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Water supply system of Tsarskoye Selo; the water supply system of Tsarskoye Selo Town (Detskoye Selo Town, Pushkin Town) and Pavlovsk Town . In the middle of the 18th cent. the water supply system designed by P ... | | Water supply system of Tsarskoye Selo; the water supply system of Tsarskoye Selo Town (Detskoye Selo Town, Pushkin Town) and Pavlovsk Town . In the middle of the 18th cent. the water supply system designed by P. Ostrovski was constructed for the supplying of the Imperial residence from Vittelevsky springs. In the 1770s –1780s F.V. Bauer constructed the new spring water supply system from the Taitsi springs. Nevertheless there was no united water pipe system in the town. Opened canals were used partly for the water supply and the wooden pipes were used partly for the water supply too; citizens used the well water. In the second half of the 19th cent. the population began to rise, the quality of supply water deteriorated due to the incomplete design of the water supply system, the shortage of water began appeare periodically. In 1887 the first tower water supply system was constructed to the design of M.I. Altukhov and two water towers: the Orlov Water Tower and the Pevcheskaya (Ghorus) were constructed too. Nevertheless the problem was not solved and in 1901-1904 the up-to-date water supply system was constructed, it used the water from the Orlov springs ( springs was situated to the 14 kilimeters South-West of Tsarskoye Selo). Water, by gravity, was conducted into settling tank by means of two water pipes and from this settling tank water was supplyed into the well of the water pumping station and then water was supplyed tanks of the water towers. Branch pipe to Pavlovsk was constructed using the well at the Orlov Gates. The residential house, boilerhouse with three Cornish boilers and three Vortingtong pumps, economizer room, engine room, workshop, office, bath-house and laundary were built at the station. All buildings were lit with electricity. The water of the Orlov springs had the highest quality according to analyses. The special commission under the heading of V. E. Timonov supervised on the water supply system constructing that was realized by the Ministry of Transport. Rb 1,640,000 were spent for this project. Since 1905 Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk were provided by the necessary volumes of the pure water due to this project. In 1910-1914 eight pumping constructions were built at the place of the Orlov springs. In this condition, water supply system of Tsarskoye Selo worked until the Great Patriotic War and it was seriously damaged during the battles and the occupation of Pushkin Town and Pavlovsk Town.
Persons Altukhov, Mikhail Ivanovich Bauer Fedor Villimovich Ostrovsky, Pyetr Timonov Vsevolod Evgenievich
Addresses Pavlovsk, town Pushkin, town
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