Grodno TV Tower, also known as the Hrodna TV Tower, is a 254 metre tall lattice tower at

Grodno Grodno (russian: Гродно, pl, Grodno; lt, Gardinas) or Hrodna ( be, Гродна ), is a city in western Belarus. The city is located on the Neman River, 300 km (186 mi) from Minsk, about 15 km (9 mi) from the Polish b ...

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, built in 1984 of a unique design. The upper section of the tower is guyed using four horizontal crossbars fixed on the main body of the tower extending out from it about two-thirds of the way up the tower. Only three other towers are known to have been built of a similar design all within a three year period. They are the Wavre Transmitter, the

Astara TV Tower Astara Television Tower ( az, Astara televiziya qüllə), is a steel tall Azerbaijani lattice television tower located in the city of Astara, on the southeastern part of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The tower is used for transmitting FM Radio a ...

and the

Vitebsk TV Tower Vitebsk Television Tower ( be, Віцебская тэлевізійная вежа), also known as Viciebsk, Vitsebsk or Vitsyebsk TV Tower, is a tall steel Belarusian lattice television tower that is located in the city of Vitebsk, in Belaru ...

, the Grodno TV Tower is the tallest of the four. The Wavre Transmitter is the only one of which was built outside of the

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. Grodno TV Tower is used for FM and TV broadcasting. A nearly identical but a few metres lower tower is at

Vitebsk Vitebsk or Viciebsk (russian: Витебск, ; be, Ві́цебск, ; , ''Vitebsk'', lt, Vitebskas, pl, Witebsk), is a city in Belarus. The capital of the Vitebsk Region, it has 366,299 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-largest ci ...

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20060626104532/http://dxsignal.info/read/ant_grodno.htm * http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b59516 * Lattice towers Towers in Belarus Towers completed in 1984 {{Belarus-struct-stub

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