Radio tower on Shabolovka, the first Russian oil pipeline, cracking for gasoline, hyperboloids, steam boilers, tanks, mesh ceilings, water supply, bridges and oil tankers, mines and a bateau port, and also the tallest building in Russia - it’s hard to believe that all this and much more was invented by one person - Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov (1853–1939). Whatever they call him - the Russian Leonardo, the man-factory, our Eiffel, the universal genius, the knight of the Silver Age, and he was, first of all, a Russian engineer with unique abilities and talent, whose inventions conquered time and geographical spaces, determining the development of the world scientific thought for many years to come. What he was like in life, who he loved, what he was passionate about, how he lived and worked under the tsars and the Bolsheviks, and why, in spite of everything, he remained in Russia, working in one place for 60 years—this is what the first biography of Vladimir Shukhov in the series “tells” ZhZL." The author is the famous writer and historian Alexander Vaskin.