ABOUT  THE  PROJECT"WATER  TOWERS"

Initial authors of this project are two explorers from Moscow - Alexander Benedictov and Arkady Zavadski. According to some numbers of water towers has been destroyed (link 1, link 2) it is the risk to lose not only water towers as there are but also a part of history of rural and railway water supply. Morover water towers are very good-looking in view of architectural aspects. Specially it's related to water towers built from wood and bricks before The Second World War and particly in past-war period. Towers built by captive Germans in past-war period have to be mentioned specialy. Prussian style is apparent for them (compare for example tower in the city of Obninsk to towers in Kaliningrad , former East Prussia.

At the same time to authors of this project it is necessary to attribute all those who disinterestedly helped us in gathering the information on the given theme. From the bottom of a heart we would like to thank those people without which help a creation of our project would be impossible:

• Irina Grigorieva - Director of Mosvodokanal Water Museum, allowed us to use materials of museum.

• Special thanks to Moscow Representative Office of DHV CIS BV (The Netherlands)- consultancy company that working in water and ecology busines sphere in Russia and NIS.