The
Almaty Tower was built between 1975 and 1983 in
AlmatyAlmaty is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of 1,348,500 , which represents 9% of the population of the country....
city,
KazakhstanKazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country situated in Eurasia that is ranked as the ninth largest country in the world. It is also the world's largest landlocked country. Its territory of 2,727,300 km² is greater than Western Europe...
. The tower is located on high slopes of
Kok TobeKok Tobe is a mountain on the south-eastern outskirts of Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city. It is also the name of the popular recreation area on the top of the mountain....
mountain ( means "green hill") south-east of downtown Almaty.
In opposite to 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.
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The
Almaty Tower was built between 1975 and 1983 in
AlmatyAlmaty is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of 1,348,500 , which represents 9% of the population of the country....
city,
KazakhstanKazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country situated in Eurasia that is ranked as the ninth largest country in the world. It is also the world's largest landlocked country. Its territory of 2,727,300 km² is greater than Western Europe...
. The tower is located on high slopes of
Kok TobeKok Tobe is a mountain on the south-eastern outskirts of Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city. It is also the name of the popular recreation area on the top of the mountain....
mountain ( means "green hill") south-east of downtown Almaty.
In opposite to 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 scaleThe Richter magnitude scale, also known as the local magnitude scale, assigns a single number to quantify the amount of seismic energy released by an earthquake. It is a base-10 logarithmic scale obtained by calculating the logarithm of the combined horizontal amplitude of the largest displacement...
.
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