Fountains on Manezhnaya Square. My personal photo blog Dome on Manezhnaya Square

When you move along Manezhnaya Square, you simply cannot help but pay attention to the dome-shaped structure, on top of which St. George the Victorious proudly sits on horseback.

This is the “World Clock” fountain - one of the center of the capital. It is located directly above the shopping complex " Okhotny Ryad”, at the same time being its dome. This is not just a fountain, but a real watch, albeit with a unique dial.

The fountain is equipped with a special glass dome depicting a map of the northern hemisphere. It is divided into 24 parts, each of which corresponds to one of the time zones indicating the cities - capitals of states. Each sector is equipped with 12 light bulbs, which, when lit, add 5 minutes to the present time.

The fountain never stops moving. Thanks to calculations, in exactly one day the composition makes a complete revolution around its own axis.

However, this is not just a beautiful landmark. With its help you can easily find out the time in a specific capital of the world. To do this, you need to select a city, and then look down at the ring. This will be the hourly value of this place. Thanks to the illuminated lights, you can also find out the minute indicators. You need to count their number and multiply the value by 5.

Speaking about the fountain, one cannot fail to mention some of the secrets associated with it. For example, it is still unknown who exactly is the author of this work. As for the horseman on top, this is most likely the work of the legendary sculptor and artist Zurab Tsereteli.

The invention relates to the field of watchmaking. The fountain clock contains a controlled pumping unit installed on the base with an intake pipe and a filter, the pressure pipe of which is connected to an annular pipe equipped with nozzles for the flow of liquid jets. The nozzles for the flow of liquid jets are located evenly along two circles. There are twelve nozzles on the outer circumference. There are sixty nozzles located on the inner circumference. Shut-off valves having an electric drive connected to a control unit containing an electronic clock are installed between the annular pipe and the nozzles for the flow of liquid jets. The technical result of the invention is to provide the ability to determine time using a fountain. 1 ill.

The invention relates to the field of watchmaking.

A device for mass entertainment is known, containing a controlled pump unit installed on a floating base with intake windows and a filter connected to a pressure pipe connected to a centrally located tube with a nozzle for the flow of a jet of liquid, and sources of multi-colored light. The device has liquid pressure regulators located on a floating base and connected to the pressure pipe and between each other by radially located pipes and an annular pipe with vertically arranged tubes with nozzles for the flow of liquid jets, while the liquid pressure regulators are located on the radial pipes.

The disadvantage of the known device is that it cannot be used to determine time.

The purpose of the invention is to eliminate this drawback, namely, to obtain the ability to determine time using a fountain.

This goal is achieved by the fact that a fountain clock containing a pump unit installed on the base with an intake pipe and a filter, the pressure pipe of which is connected to an annular collector pipe equipped with nozzles for the flow of liquid jets, which are located evenly along two circles, with a twelve nozzles, and on the inner one - sixty; between the annular pipe and the nozzles for the flow of liquid jets, shut-off valves are installed, which have an electric drive connected to a control unit containing an electronic clock.

The invention is illustrated by a drawing, which shows a block diagram of a fountain clock.

The fountain clock contains a pumping unit 1 with an intake pipe 2, on which a filter 3 is installed. The pressure pipe 4 is connected to an annular collector pipe 5, equipped with nozzles for the flow of liquid jets 6 and 7. Between the annular collector pipe 5 and the nozzles for the flow of liquid jets , 6 and 7, shut-off valves 8 are installed, connected to a control unit 9 containing an electronic clock 10. Nozzles 6, in the amount of 12 pieces, are located evenly around the circumference, forming a clock dial. The nozzles 7, in the amount of 60 pieces, are also located evenly around a circle, the diameter of which is less than the diameter of the circle on which the nozzles 6 are located; they form a minute dial.

The fountain clock works in the following way. The control unit 9, containing an electronic clock 10, issues signals to open and close the shut-off valves 8, at the end of each minute opening one of the sixty valves 8 located between the collector pipe 5 and the nozzles for the flow of jets of liquid 7, while the jets of liquid flowing from nozzles 7 act as a minute hand, that is, the number of jets of liquid flowing from nozzles 7 will correspond to the number of minutes of a given hour. At the end of each hour, the control unit 9 opens one of the valves 8 located between the collector pipe 5 and one of the twelve nozzles 6, and the number of nozzles 6 emitting jets will correspond to the number of hours. At the moment the next nozzle 6 is turned on, all valves 8 located between the collector pipe 5 and nozzles 7 are closed at the command of the control unit 9 and the countdown of minutes begins again by opening the valves 8, blocking the flow of water from the nozzles 7. For ease of determining the time at night, the fountain can be equipped with lighting .

The claimed invention can be used as a tourist attraction, a landmark of a populated area, which is not only capable of serving as a landscape or interior decoration, humidifying the air and creating coolness, but also showing the current time, performing the functions of a clock.

A fountain clock containing a controlled pumping unit mounted on the base with an intake pipe and a filter, the pressure pipe of which is connected to an annular collector pipe equipped with nozzles for the flow of liquid jets, characterized in that the nozzles for the flow of liquid jets are located evenly along two circles, and on There are twelve nozzles on the outer circle, and sixty on the inner circle. Shut-off valves with an electric drive connected to a control unit containing an electronic clock are installed between the annular pipe and the nozzles for the flow of liquid jets.

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The invention relates to methods and installations for ensuring forced melting of snow mass in winter time year, collected by special vehicles from city streets and roads, and at the same time, ensuring the operation of the fountain in the summer.

A fountain head is proposed, which contains a table with a supporting structure placed on it, in which micromotors are installed, and an outer body having an inner body, in the upper part of which a spray device and a hat are located. The spraying device is equipped with segments dividing it into sectors, and water directing units with micro-nuts connected to micro-motors. The sectors have windows above the micronuts, and water inlet pipes with solenoid valves are connected to the table. One of the pipes is connected to the internal cavity of the inner casing, and the other pipe is connected to a reservoir formed by the inner surface of the outer casing and outer surface inner body. The technical result of the invention is the creation in the head of a vertical fountain, a “Dance of Jets” fountain to music, and a horizontal fountain with jets rotating around its axis. 2 salary f-ly, 4 ill.

The invention relates to hydraulic devices, namely to fountains, including decorative and demonstrative ones, in which the nature of the stream changes. The technical result of the invention is to expand functionality by creating varieties of jets that dance to music in one small spray head of a home or small-office fountain. The technical result is achieved by the fact that the fountain contains a table with a housing, a stepper motor and electromagnets attached to it, while a water inlet with an electromagnetic valve, a spray head and contact connectors are installed on the housing, and a jet dancing system mounted on a stepper motor is installed inside the housing, an insulating plate with contacts, receivers and a magnet, installed in the lower part of the jet dancing system, a plate and disk with contacts, cone nuts and a reed switch, placed on electromagnets. 5 ill.

The invention relates to hydraulic devices, namely to fountains, including decorative and demonstrative ones, in which the nature of the stream changes. A small-sized musical fountain contains a base with a body, an electric motor and brackets for fastening traverses with electrical contacts attached to it. The body contains a water inlet with an electric valve and a sprinkler head. An electric drum with electric contact rings connected to micromotors is installed on the electric motor. The micromotors are secured with screws with micronuts placed with the possibility of changing their position in the water guide devices. A sprinkler head is installed on top of the water guide devices. The technical result of the invention is to expand functionality by creating varieties of jets that dance to music in one small spray head of a home or small-office fountain. 5 ill.

The invention relates to devices such as fountains or air humidifiers and can be used in the chemical industry and food industry. The device for creating a dome-shaped film of liquid contains a collecting container, a vertically installed supply pipe passing through it, and a baffle with a fairing connected to the supply pipe through a honeycomb. The bumper is installed with its lower end into the fairing and is secured in the fairing by means of a threaded connection. In the upper part of the supply pipe there is a cylindrical pipe made of elastic material; one end of the pipe is attached to the supply pipe using a clamp, and the other end is loosely adjacent to the edge of the fender. The device provides the ability to regulate the film thickness, size and shape of the liquid dome by changing the excess liquid pressure in the supply pipe, as well as safe operation of the device. 1 ill.

The invention relates to hydropower. The fountain is additionally equipped with an ejector pipe. One end of the ejector pipe is cut into the supply pipeline, and the other into the tank, which is sealed and pre-vacuumed. The diameter of the pipeline supplying water to the tank is three times larger than the diameter of the pipeline draining from the tank. The water level of the reservoir is three meters above the level of the top point of the reservoir. The diameter of the suction pipeline of the water pump is twice the diameter of the discharge pipeline of the water pump and is equal to the diameter of the discharge pipeline from the fountain into the reservoir. The technical result of the invention is to reduce the coefficient of friction of the water flow circulating in the fountain system and increase the efficiency of the water pump. 1 ill.

The invention relates to a device and method for forming an image on vertical flat or curved liquid flows and can be used for interior decoration of shopping, entertainment and other premises. The imaging device contains controllable deflectors located in the path of fluid flow. Deflectors allow individual drops of liquid or entire jets of liquid to pass into the visible plane or deflect into the drainage system, forming the required image. Controllable deflectors are connected to a built-in or plug-in programmable control unit. The technical result of the inventions is to expand the possibility of forming images on various flowing liquid streams, improve the quality of the displayed image on the waterfall and reduce the mechanical noise emitted by the valves of the device. 2 n. and 7 salary f-ly, 9 ill.

The invention relates to the field of watchmaking

The weather was bad, so I galloped across Europe. There are several unique clocks inside.

Dome on Manezhnaya Square.
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Not everyone is able to immediately determine the purpose of this structure - you can often hear guesses that it is a globe, a map, or just a dome, but all this is wrong. There is a clock in front of us.
Moreover, a rather rare watch with a 24 hour dial!!!
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The “World Clock” was opened for the anniversary on the occasion of the celebration of the 850th anniversary of Moscow in 1997.
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“World Clock”, which is a dome with an image of a map of the Northern Hemisphere on the outer arch. The dome makes one revolution per day and indicates the time in the largest cities of the hemisphere.
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The dome is divided into sectors, twenty-four of them - these are the time zones of our planet. The lower ring with the numbers printed on it is motionless. Determining the time from them is quite simple (first photo): the time zone with the designation “Moscow” (made in the form of a Kremlin sculpture) points to the number sixteen (the hour comes at the moment the time zone crosses the panel with the number), which means sixteen hours. The minutes are determined by the lamps: one lit lamp is five minutes (00 - 55). Therefore, it is 16 hours 15 minutes in Moscow.

It is difficult to determine the author of this watch. Maybe it's Nodar Kancheli, the Russian design engineer who designed the shopping center. Or the Mosproekt-2 design workshop, which, with the participation of Tsereteli, was developing Manezhnaya Square.
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One can only guess. But it was not difficult to guess about the sculpture crowning the dome - naturally, Zurab Tsereteli! And it depicts St. George the Victorious slaying the serpent - the symbol of Moscow, which can be seen on the coat of arms and flags of Moscow. By the way, Moscow itself is depicted in the form of a sculpture of the Kremlin.

building Historical and Archival Institute .
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The building of the Historical and Archival Institute is located in the house where the Synodal Printing House was founded in 1727. In 1815, a special building was built for the Synodal Printing House, designed by architect I.L. Mironovsky. The “Gothic” façade uses decorative motifs from the ancient buildings of the Printing House: images of a lion and a unicorn, columns entwined with vines, and white stone carvings. The sundial is also not forgotten, as a tribute to antiquity.

About 15 vertical wall sundials have survived in Russia.

Most of them are located in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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Some of the most famous ones are located on the building of the Historical and Archival Institute.

Moscow, Ilyinka street 21

The tallest buildings in Ilyinka grew in 1910-1911. Here was the headquarters of one of the largest insurance companies in Moscow - Severny. The building is a complex complex with two courtyards and a passage. The internal street runs from Ilyinka between two volumes completed with rotundas. On the left is a tall, slender clock tower topped with a two-stage rotunda. On the right is the body New Square, which used to go out to the Kitai-gorod wall and the Ilyinsky Gate. The complex as a whole is a system of buildings designed in the style of rational modernism.
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There is a noticeable relationship here with the works of architecture of the Chicago School and other buildings of a similar type on the American continent. This building is a masterpiece of Russian Art Nouveau architecture. For the chimes of the high clock tower, which, unfortunately, are silent, S.V. wrote a special melody. Rachmaninov.
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I call them Moscow Bik Ben; there is some subtle similarity between them.
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During times Soviet Union The USSR Control Chamber was located in this building.
On December 14, 1991, Russian President Boris Yeltsin handed it over to the Constitutional Court.

There is probably practically no information about this watch.
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and bonus.

A special countdown clock to the 2014 Olympics was installed on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow.

Olympic
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The clock began counting down exactly one year before the opening ceremony
Olympics 2014 in Sochi. From February 7 they will show days, hours
and minutes remaining until the main winter competitions on the planet.

A time chronometer is made in the shape of a rhombus. It weighs about two tons, equipped
LCD display and emblem Olympic Games.
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I can assume that a Swiss company is involved in the production of watches OMEGA(she definitely designed it) . The first such watch were installed in Sochi 1000 days before the games.

In Moscow there are the most
large watch - 6.5 m and red. The remaining 7 hours are less - 3 each
m and blue. They are located in St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Pyatigorsk and Khabarovsk.

Moreover, the time on different sides is different.

On the one hand, there is a countdown to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, and on the other, the Paralympic Games.

materials were used

In the 1990s, an underground shopping complex “Okhotny Ryad” was built under Manezhnaya Square, which at that time was returned to its previous name. The cascade of fountains that are part of the Okhotny Ryad shopping complex appeared at that time on the renovated square. They were located around the glass domes of the shopping center, rising above the ground.

One of the fountains is located around the main dome, which is a geographical map with the names of cities. During the day, the dome makes one full revolution and, in fact, it is a clock by which you can determine the time with an accuracy of five minutes in the cities indicated on the map.

Let me explain how this works. The dome with the names of the cities is divided into 24 sectors and rotates around an axis; the lower ring around the sector is motionless and is also divided into 24 sectors, indicating each hour of the day. Each sector has 12 lights, each of which means five minutes. Now we select a city, look at the bottom number (this is the hour), count the lit lights and multiply them by five (these are minutes), as a result we get the time in the selected city.

If you raise your head while under the main dome of the Okhotny Ryad shopping center, you can see the map in this form.

The authorship of this watch most likely belongs to the Mosproekt-2 design workshop, which, with the participation of Zurab Tsereteli, was involved in the development of Manezhnaya Square and the Okhotny Ryad underground shopping complex. The sculpture crowning the dome, which is not difficult to guess, is the creation of Zurab Tsereteli. And it depicts St. George the Victorious slaying the serpent - a symbol of Moscow, which can be seen on the coat of arms and flags of this city.

The sculpture is symbolic. The plot depicting George is associated with one of the many miracles of the saint. George, with his miraculous appearance, saved the royal daughter and many other inhabitants of the Lebanese mountains from death, killing the serpent that was devouring people. In Rus', St. George the Victorious has long been considered the defender of the Orthodox army. The name of the founder of Moscow, Yuri Dolgoruky, is associated with his name. Yuri, Guriy, Yegoriy, and even Rurik are all variants of the name Georgy. During the reign of Dmitry Donskoy, Saint George was revered as the patron saint of Moscow; later, the image of St. George the Victorious is part of the Russian state emblem, and since 1995 he has been depicted on the coat of arms of Moscow. By the way, Moscow itself is depicted on the map as a sculpture of the Kremlin, which can be seen on the left side of the picture.

The World Clock Fountain, like all the other fountains of the square, dates back to 1997, when, on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of Moscow, Manezhnaya Square acquired its final form and the entire fountain ensemble located on it was put into operation.

Paying tribute to the historical name "Okhotny Ryad", designers from the American company Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc., which was responsible for the design of the complex, installed a fountain depicting the goddess of the hunt Diana and her two companions in tunics on the ground floor under a dome with a clock. Each character is equipped with hunting attributes and the game they have caught. Above them rises a huge bowl from which water flows. The authorship of the sculptural composition probably belongs to the same Zurab Tsereteli, and the uniqueness of this year-round working fountain is that it is located below ground level - at a depth of about fourteen meters.

Manezhnaya Square March 28th, 2012

Everyone knows about Manezhnaya Square. A huge number of photographs from it are published on the Internet every day. It is here that tourists come every day and begin to get acquainted with the sights of Moscow. But despite this, I will still post some of my photos. Manezhnaya Square is located next to the Kremlin and the Alexander Garden. Here are the exits from the Okhotny Ryad metro station.

Manezhnaya Square was formed in 1932-1937 after the demolition of the block that existed on this site. The square received its name in 1937 after the Manege building, the facade of which forms the southern side of the square. Although in 1967-1990 it was the square of the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution.

The Manege was built in 1817 on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the Russian victory in the Patriotic War of 1812 according to the design of A.A. Betancourt. But in 2004, the building was badly damaged by a fire and was rebuilt according to the design of the architect P.Yu. Andreev, with a complete change in the interiors and some exterior details. Now this is the Central Exhibition Hall, which is architectural monument federal significance .

Under Manezhnaya Square there is the Okhotny Ryad shopping complex, opened in 1997. On the surface, the fountains of the "Dome" speak about it.

There are a total of 3 such dome fountains in the complex.

There are a large number of fountains on Manezhnaya Square. The complex of fountains “Geyser”, “Veil” and “Waterfall” are very popular among tourists. Sculptural group "Seasons" in the center of the Geyser fountain:

Fountains "Veil" and "Waterfall":

If I'm not mistaken, this is the "Snail" fountain:

On the territory of Manezhnaya Square there is an artificial channel of the Neglinnaya River, which was underground at the beginning of the 19th century. Scattered throughout its territory are sculptures by Zurab Tsereteli based on Russian fairy tales (I visited him in October 2010), installed here after the reconstruction of the square in 1997. The bottom of the reservoir is lined with mosaics.

Sculpture "Fox and Crane":

Sculpture "Frog Princess":

Sculpture "The Old Man and the Goldfish":

The "Grotto" fountain is made in the form of a sculpture of a mermaid lying on a pedestal stylized as a flower bed. Symbolizes the Neglinnaya River coming to the surface and flowing in a free channel.

Several other famous buildings overlook Manege Square.

Hotel "Moscow". This is one of the largest hotels in Moscow, built in 1932-1938, was demolished in 2004 and now in its place there is a hotel, almost a copy of that former “Moskva”.

State Duma building Russian Federation was built in 1934-1938.

The building of the State Historical Museum was built in 1875–1881. I also posted from this museum on my blog.

On May 9, 1995 (in honor of the 50th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War), a monument to Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (sculptor V.M. Klykov) was erected right in front of the building of the historical museum from Manezhnaya Square.

Noteworthy is the huge dome right in the center of the square. This is the "World Clock" fountain. It is the main dome of the Okhotny Ryad underground shopping complex. The glass dome of the fountain with the names of the cities rotates slowly and within a day it makes a full revolution.

In the background you can see that the National Hotel (5 stars) faces Manezhnaya Square. The hotel building, opened in 1903, was restored in 1985-1995. A little closer is the preserved facade of I.V. Zholtovsky’s house, built in 1932–1934 (the building itself has been reconstructed many times since then).

One of the facades of the building housing the State Geological Museum. V.I.Vernadsky:

Institute of Asian and African Countries (ISAA) MSU. M.V. Lomonosov:

Manezhnaya Square itself is a good place, especially on a weekday, when there are not so many people here and you can calmly stroll and take pictures for the hundredth time of the sights of the center of Moscow.

And this is the very beginning of the main street of our capital - Tverskaya.