Kyiv TV Tower
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Key facts
- Status
- Completed
- Type
- Steel lattice television tower
- Location
- Kyiv, Ukraine
- Opening
- 1973, 2025
- Renovated
- October 2024 - 2025
- Closed
- 2022–2025
- Height
- 385 m (1,263 ft)
- Architect
- Vitalii Shymanovskyi [ uk ]
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lattice tower
- Country
- Ukraine
- Located in
- Kyiv
- Material used
- steel
- Image
- Киевская телебашня.JPG
- Height
- 385
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- Commons category
- Kyiv TV tower
- date of official opening
- 1973-00-00
- number of elevators
- 2
- inception
- 1973-00-00
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Kyiv TV Tower (Ukrainian: Київська телевежа, romanized: Kyivska televezha) is a 385 m-high (1,263 ft) lattice metal tower on Oranzhereina Street, Kyiv, Ukraine, and is the tallest structure in the country. The tower was built in 1973 while Kyiv was the capital of the Ukrainian SSR. The tower was the tallest freestanding metal structure in the world. It is used for radio and television broadcasting and is not open to the public. It is the second tallest lattice tower in the world and sixth tallest standing structure in Europe.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kyiv TV Tower” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.