Almaty Tower

Almaty Tower
Алматы Теледидар Мұнарасы
General information
Type	Telecommunications
Location	Almaty, Kazakhstan
Coordinates	43°13′44″N 76°58′34″E / 43.22889°N 76.97611°E / 43.22889; 76.97611Coordinates: 43°13′44″N 76°58′34″E / 43.22889°N 76.97611°E / 43.22889; 76.97611
Construction started	1975
Completed	1983
Technical details
Elevators	2
Design and construction
Architect	N.G. Terziev, A.N. Savchenko (constructors N.K. Akimov, B.V. Ostroumov)

The Almaty Tower is a TV tower built between 1975 and 1983 in Almaty city, Kazakhstan. The tower is located on high slopes of Kok Tobe mountain (Kazakh: Көктөбе means "green 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^{[citation needed]}.

External links

• Almaty Television Tower at Structurae
• Photograph of the Tower from The Almaty Expat site

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Almaty Tower

• List of towers
• List of tallest freestanding structures in the world
• List of tallest buildings and structures in the world

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