Almaty Tower

Almaty Tower

The Almaty Tower was built between 1975 and 1983 in Almaty city, Kazakhstan. The tower is located on high slopes of Kok Tobe mountain ( _kk. "Көктөбе" means "green hill") south-east of downtown Almaty.

The tower is 371.5 m (1073 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 Fact|date=September 2007.

External links

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* [http://expat.nursat.kz/?3303 Photograph of the Tower from The Almaty Expat site]

ee also

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


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