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Status
  
Complete

Completed
  
1973

Height
  
385 m

Construction started
  
1968

Location
  
Kiev, Ukraine

Opening
  
1973

Opened
  
1974

Lifts/elevators
  
2

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Type
  
Steel lattice television tower

Similar
  
Riga Radio and TV Tower, Tashkent Tower, Almaty Tower, Saint Petersburg TV Tower, Gerbrandy Tower

The Kiev TV Tower (Ukrainian: Телевізійна вежа, Televiziyna vezha) is a 385 m-high (1,263 ft) lattice steel tower built in 1973 in Kiev, Ukraine, for radio and television broadcasting. It is the tallest freestanding lattice steel construction in the world.‹See TfD› The tower in Oranzhereina Street is not open to the public.

Map of Kyiv TV Tower, Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000

Construction began in 1968 and finished in 1973 at a cost of approximately $12 million. Made of steel pipe of various diameters and thicknesses, the structure weighs 2,700 tonnes. The central pipe, or core, where the elevator is located, is 4 metres in diameter and made of pipe that is 12 mm thick. It sits on a four-legged base that is about 100 metres tall. Atop the base is an enclosed level which houses microwave transmitting and receiving equipment. At about 200 metres is a second enclosed level that houses television and FM transmitters, as well as a control and maintenance shop. This second level is the elevator's terminus.

The tower is unique in that no mechanical fasteners such as rivets are used in the structure: every joint, pipe and fixture is attached by welding.

The tower was first designed for Moscow, then the Soviet capital. But Moscow authorities preferred a more "solid" type of tower which was eventually built (Ostankino Tower). Later, when Kiev needed its own tower, the project was reintroduced. The Soviet government ordered the engineers to shorten the tower by almost 30%, so as not to be as tall as the Moscow one.

References

Kiev TV Tower Wikipedia


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