White Tower

Ordzonikidsevski district, Russia

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The White Tower is a constructivist monument and former water tower of the Uralmash plant in Yekaterinburg, Russia, designed by architect Moisei Reisher and built between 1929 and 1931. Among the city's first reinforced concrete structures, it exemplifies the bold geometric language of Soviet modernism. After the expansion of Yekaterinburg's municipal water supply network in the 1960s rendered it obsolete, the tower fell into disrepair until 2012, when the Podelniki architectural group assumed its restoration. Today it serves as a cultural venue and has become the informal symbol of the Uralmash neighborhood. Recognized as an architectural monument of national significance in 1974, it holds federal cultural heritage status in Russia.