
Lighthouses, windmills and watermills, water towers, dams, old bridges, observatories and other engineering structures. Many of them were built more than a century ago and still impress with their well-thought-out design, and some have become monuments to the engineering thought of their time. Here it is worth looking at the details: the masonry, the steel trusses, the mechanisms and the traces of how people solved technical problems without modern technology.
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Lighthouses, towers, bridges and observatories by region
Orenburg Oblast26Chelyabinsk Oblast6Karachayevo-Circassian Republic5Republic of Bashkortostan5Murmansk Region5Republic of Tatarstan4Samara Oblast4Sverdlovsk Region3Krasnodar Territory3Leningrad Region2Kabardino-Balkarian Republic2California2Tver Region2Ulyanovsk Region2Republic of Adygea1Novgorod Region1Republic of Mordovia1Washington1Moscow Region1Vladimir Oblast1