Yerevan TV Tower
high lattice tower, Nork Hill, Yerevan, Armenia.
Yerevan TV Tower (Armenian: Երևանի հեռուստաաշտարակ, Yerevani herustaashtarak) is a 311.7-metre (1,023 ft) high lattice tower built in 1977 on Nork Hill near downtown Yerevan, Armenia. It is the tallest structure in Armenia, fourth-tallest tower in Western Asia (The Milad Tower in Tehran being the tallest), sixth-tallest free-standing lattice tower and thirty-eighth-tallest tower in the world.
Construction
In the late 1960s it was decided to replace the 180-metre (590 ft)-high TV tower in Yerevan due to the insufficient capacity of the latter.
The preparatory work on Yerevan TV tower and Tbilisi Tower, which also needed replacement, started simultaneously at the Ukrainian Institute for Steel Structures. The project leaders were Isaak Zatulovsky, Anatoli Perelmuter, Mark Grinberg, Yuri Shevernitsky, and Boris But. Tbilisi and Yerevan were the first among the Soviet capitals where towers were built. The same group later worked on the project of Kyiv TV Tower (though it was finished earlier than in Yerevan). Tbilisi Tower is lower, lighter and slightly tilted compared to Yerevan Tower.
Construction started in 1974 and finished 3 years later. The steel was shipped from Rustavi Metallurgical Plant in Georgia.
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