Water tower
   Photo: Water Tower

The original building, located at the intersection of Victory Avenue and Zhukov in Orenburg, is a historic landmark. The building, designed for water treatment in the city, the volume of a little over eighty buckets, has been operational since 1904. Orenburg providing drinking water, the tower was the first step toward industrialization and economic development of the region.

Beautiful building of the water tower located in the historic area of ​​the city in the past was surrounded by one-story buildings of local residents. Before 1939 the tower was situated behind the dilapidated stone mill. In our time, in close proximity to the historic Tower is the television station, Orenburg Oblast Philharmonic and as an architectural contrast of modernity and history, the library building.

The water tower, which is preserved in its original form to the present day, and does not function as a filter drinking City since 1946, is an architectural monument and tourist attraction. Well-lit intersection with the building of the tower in the dark of night does Orenburg mysterious and more interesting for tourists. Now the tower take up businesses, and is located in the basement of a pub with a symbolic name.

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Water tower
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