Water tower description and photo - Russia - Volga region: Orenburg (Topic)

Water tower description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Orenburg. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The original building, located at the intersection of Pobeda and Zhukova avenues in Orenburg, is a historical landmark of the city. The building, created to purify water in the city, with a volume of just over eighty buckets, began to function in 1904. Providing Orenburg with drinking water, the tower became the first step towards industrialization and development of the regional economy.

The beautiful building of the water tower is located in the historic district of the city and was previously surrounded by one-story buildings of local residents. Until 1939, a dilapidated stone mill was located behind the tower. Nowadays, in close proximity to the historic tower there is a television center, the Orenburg Regional Philharmonic Society and, as an architectural contrast between modernity and history, the library building.

The water tower, preserved in its original form to this day and not functioning as a city drinking filter since 1946, is an architectural monument and city landmark. The well-lit intersection with the tower building in the dark makes Orenburg at night mysterious and more interesting for tourists. Now the tower is occupied by commercial structures, and a beer bar with a symbolic name is located in the basement.

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