Status Complete Completed 1983 Address Almaty, Kazakhstan Opened 1983 Phone +7 708 144 3718 Lifts/elevators 2 | Location Almaty, Kazakhstan Opening 1983 Height 371 m Floors 7 Construction started 1975 | |
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Type Steel telecommunications and observation tower Architectural 372 m (1,220 ft) (rounded-off) Similar Kok‑Tobe, Azeri TV Tower, Rameswaram TV Tower, Petronius, Sint‑Pieters‑Leeuw Tower | ||
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The Almaty Television Tower, or simply Almaty Tower, is a 371.5-metre-high (1,219 ft) steel television tower built between 1975 and 1983 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The tower is located on high slopes of Kok Tobe mountain (Kazakh: Көктөбе means "blue hill") south-east of downtown Almaty. Unlike other similar TV towers, it is not a concrete, but a steel tubular structure. It is the tallest free-standing tubular steel structure in the world.
The tower is 371.5 m (1219 ft) tall; its 114 m metal aerial reaches 1000 meters above sea level. It has two observation decks at the height of 146 m and 252 m, which are accessible by two high-speed elevators. It is however not open to the public. The tower was built by the architects Terziev, Savchenko, Akimov and Ostroumov. Since Almaty is particularly vulnerable to earthquakes, the TV tower was designed to withstand earthquakes up to a strength of 10 on the Richter scale.