Aniva Lighthouse - an abandoned lighthouse on Cape Aniva of Sakhalin Island , on the cliff of Sivuchya. The height of the tower is 31 meters, the height of the light is 40 meters above sea level [1] .
| Aniva Lighthouse | |
|---|---|
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| A country | |
| Rock | Lionfish |
| Architect | Miura Shinobu |
| Construction date | 1939 |
| NUM height | 40 m |
| Acting | No |
History
The Aniva lighthouse was installed in 1939 on the small rock of Sivuchya, near the inaccessible rocky cape Aniva. This area is replete with currents, frequent fogs, underwater rocky banks. The Japanese name of the cape - Nakashiretoko ( Japanese: 中知 床 岬 ) - gave the original name to the lighthouse; it was later renamed Aniva Lighthouse.
The author of the project was engineer Shinobu Miura ( 三浦 忍 ) , a graduate of the Technical College of Kanagawa Prefecture ; the construction cost was 600,000 yen and took a little more than two years: from June 1937 to October 1939 [1] . The lighthouse belonged to the third class: the focus length of its lens was 500 mm, its diameter was 1000 mm; there was a [1] .
The lighthouse is a round concrete tower with a small side extension inscribed in an oval base. The tower has 9 floors. On the ground floor were diesel and battery . The first floor with an annex was occupied by a kitchen and a food warehouse, the second - a radio room, an equipment room and a guardhouse. In the third, fourth and fifth floors of the tower there were living rooms for 12 people. In the central part of the tower there was a pipe, inside of which was suspended a pendulum - a weight weighing 270 kilograms - started every three hours to move the optical system. The range of the lighthouse was 17.5 miles. In 1968, the third floor was reinforced with concrete blocks [1] .
Since 1990, there are no more permanent workers at the lighthouse, it was converted into a nuclear power station at RTGs and worked autonomously until 2006. Then the isotope installations were removed, and the lighthouse was abandoned and plundered by looters .
The president of the Russian Geographical Society , Sergei Shoigu, was sent a petition demanding that Aniva be protected as a historical monument. According to official statements [2], the reconstruction of the lighthouse was supposed to begin in 2015, but as of the lighthouse for 2019, work had not been started.
Despite the severe destruction, the lighthouse is intensively visited by tourists arriving in private and personal ships. Unorganized excursions exacerbate the condition of the lighthouse, but at the same time they attract the attention of society.
The lighthouse gradually collapses under the influence of water and wind.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 角 幸 博, 角 哲, 石 本 正 明, 原 朋 教. 南 サ ハ リ ン に お け る 日本 期 の 灯 台 の 現 況 (Japanese) . 日本 建築 学会 技術 報告 集 287-290 (2007).
- ↑ Aniva lighthouse is being reconstructed on Sakhalin , sakhalin.info . Date of treatment July 31, 2017.