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Moscow Octod Tower is a 258 metre tall lattice tower in Moscow, Russia. The Moscow Octod Tower is a lattice tower used for FM- and TV-transmission in an unusual octagonal cross section. Construction work on Moscow Octod Tower started in 2004. It was completed in 2006. The owner of the tower is the broadcasting company "Octod". The company and tower are situated on the territory of the former "October radio center." The address is "Demyana Bednogo str. 24, Khoroshevo-Mnyovniki district," in the western part of Moscow.
Components were made completely of steel at a machine-building plant in Syzran.
The lower sections of the Moscow Octod Tower were assembled using a crane; the top was lowered by helicopter.
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Towers in Russia by region and year Moscow Moscow Kremlin towers · b. 1491-1680 • Ivan the Great Bell Tower · 1543 • Sukharev Tower · 1695-1934 • Menshikov Tower · 1707 • Shukhov Tower · 1922 • Ostankino Tower · 1967 • Moscow Octod Tower · 2006
Moscow Oblast Taldom transmitter · 19?? • Moscow Radio Centre 13 · 1989St. Petersburg Admiralty Tower · 1718 • Pevcheskaya Tower · 1882 • Saint Petersburg TV Tower · 1962 • Okhta Center Tower · 2010 (planned)Leningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast Bolshakovo transmitter · 1974Krasnoyarsk Krai Sverdlovsk Oblast Leaning Tower of Nevyansk · 1732 • Yekaterinburg TV Tower · 1983Republic of Tatarstan Söyembikä Tower · 1549 or 1552Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Shukhov tower · 1929Kaluga Oblast Obninsk Meteorological tower · 1958Krasnodar Krai Novorossiysk TV Tower · 1996Vladimir Oblast Golden Gate · 1164Others 3803 KM · 1954 (Typical television tower)See also: List of tallest towers in the world, List of tallest buildings and structures in the world
Coordinates: 55°46′53″N 37°29′22″E / 55.7814°N 37.4894°EThis mast or transmitter tower article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.