Stanislav Range Front Light
Stanislav Range Front Light or Small Adzhyhol Lighthouse is an active lighthouse and range light, located on a concrete pier on a tiny islet about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) west northwest of Rybalce, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) from Kherson, Ukraine. Together with Adziogol lighthouse, located 6.49 kilometres (4.03 mi) 109° from it, it serves guiding ships entering the Dnieper River.
 Stanislav Range Front Light, 2008 | |
  Location in Kherson Oblast  Stanislav Range Front Light (Ukraine) | |
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| Location | Kherson Oblast, Ukraine |
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| Coordinates | 46°30′42.74″N 32°9′3.8″E |
| Year first constructed | 1911 |
| Construction | steel tower |
| Tower shape | circular hyperboloid tower with central cylinder, double balcony, observation room and lantern |
| Markings / pattern | red tower |
| Tower height | 85 feet (26 m) |
| Focal height | 79 feet (24 m) |
| Range | 16 nautical miles (30 km; 18 mi) |
| Characteristic | F R on request, visible only on range line |
| Admiralty number | E5149 |
| NGA number | 113-18088 |
| ARLHS number | UKR-052 |
| Ukraine number | UA-1000 |
| Managing agent | Gosgidrografiya[1] |
The lighthouse is a vertical lattice hyperboloid structure of steel bars, designed in 1910 by Vladimir Shukhov. A watch room is enclosed by the structure, and a one-storey lighthouse keeper's house adjoins the lighthouse.
The site of the tower is accessible only by boat. The site is open to the public but the tower is closed.
See also
- List of lighthouses in Ukraine
- Thin-shell structure
- List of hyperboloid structures
- List of thin shell structures
References
- Stanislav Range Front Light Archived 4 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 21 April 2016
- Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Ukraine: Mykolaiv Area". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- List of Lights, Pub. 113: The West Coasts of Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and Azovskoye More (Sea of Azov) (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2009. p. 311.
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