In 1880 Alexander Veniaminovich Bari founded the ‘Drafting office’ in Moscow, the technical director of which was an engineer Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov. The organization began to fulfill almost 80% of orders for the manufacturing of metal structures and products in Russia: the bridge spans, boilers, tanks, gas receivers, power transmission line supports, pitched trusses, columns and a lot more. The success of the company at the first stage of activity was facilitated by the complete transition from the bolted connections of structures to the riveted ones at the plants, for the first time in world practice, due to the works of Shukhov, who even before working with Bari since 1876 had always used only the riveted part connections in his inventions.
The technique he developed for calculating of the riveted units had facilitated the implementation and widespread acceptance of the original coupling called the ‘Shukhov join’. As a result, the complexity and therefore the cost of manufacturing structures decreased, which was beneficial for the company. It was also beneficial for those who have long been a good judge in the performing of the riveting operations – the boiler makers from the Gorokhovets sheading. During 15 years of work, from 1880 to 1895, the ‘Drafting office’ of an engineer Alexander Veniaminovich Bari built 3,240 tanks, 65 barges for transporting of the liquid bulk cargo, 21 grain elevators, the water pipelines in 6 cities, 8 blast furnaces with all equipment, 417 rail road bridges according to Shukhov’s projects. And the Gorokhovites took part in the construction of all these structures.
In 1896, at the Industrial and art exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod, Bari was awarded the highest award. In 1900, at the World Exhibition in Paris, the technical director of the company, Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov, was awarded the Grand table gold medal and the Honorary Diploma.