Moscow's Iconic Shukhov Tower Faces Dismantling

Engineer Vladimir Shukhov, who designed the tower in 1919, was confident that his innovative steelwork could build a 360-meter structure, taller than the Eiffel Tower -- a design that was abandoned due to material shortages.

A postage stamp marking 50 years of Radio Moscow displays the Shukhov Tower.

The architect’s great-grandson, also named Vladimir Shukhov, has led a campaign to offer an alternative method of restoration that would reinforce the tower's points of structural weakness without tearing it down.