Saint Petersburg Television Tower is a

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lattice

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Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. Being the first dedicated television tower in the

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, the Saint Petersburg TV Tower is utilized for transmitting for FM-/ TV-

broadcasting Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began wi ...

throughout the federal city.

History

The Saint Petersburg TV Tower's construction commenced in 1962. Upon its completion in the same year, the tower was, and is, considered the first dedicated television tower to have ever served the Soviet Union, transmitting FM-/TV-broadcasting ever since.

Geography

The Saint Petersburg TV Tower is situated at 3 Ulitsa Akademika Pavlova, which lies in the federal city of

which, in turn, is the

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of the Northwestern Federal District of the

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. The television tower is located in

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, wherein, several famous landmarks, such as famous parks and several embankments, can be found alongside and/or near the tower. In addition, the nearest

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to the tower is the Petrogradskaya.

Construction and structure

The Saint Petersburg TV Tower is a truss tower made up of steel, making it one of the sturdiest as well. Being a dual-purpose tower, the Saint Petersburg TV Tower features an observation platform at a height of , thus, being an

observation tower An observation tower is a structure used to view events from a long distance and to create a full 360 degree range of vision to conduct long distance observations. Observation towers are usually at least tall and are made from stone, iron, an ...

at the same time. In addition, the tower possesses an antenna necessary for transmission at a height of . After installing a new antenna in June 2011, tower reached height of . In terms of height records, the Saint Petersburg TV Tower is considered as the second-tallest tower after the concrete

Ostankino Tower Ostankino Tower (russian: links=no, Останкинская телебашня, Ostankinskaya telebashnya) is a television and radio tower in Moscow, Russia, owned by the Moscow branch of unitary enterprise Russian TV and Radio Broadcasting Ne ...

and the tallest lattice tower in Russia, possessing a total height of . In addition, the Saint Petersburg TV Tower ranks as the eleventh-tallest lattice tower in the world, the second-tallest television tower, and the tallest lattice television tower in the whole of the

(see

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Gallery

''Click on the thumbnail to enlarge. File:Television Tower SPB (img1).jpg, Saint Petersburg TV Tower as seen from Ushakovskaya Embankment File:View to Petersburg TV-tower.jpg, Saint Petersburg TV tower as observed from the Dvortsovaya Embankment File:Spb Views from Isaac Cathedral May2012 06.jpg,

and the television tower (back right) as viewed from Isaac Cathedral, taken on 6 May 2012 File:Telebashnya.JPG, Saint Petersburg TV Tower at night File:Кантемировский мост и телебашня.jpg, Saint Petersburg TV Tower (left) and the bridge (center) taken alongside several high-rise apartments File:Кантемировская улица.jpg, Kantemirovskaya street (foreground) towards Kantemirovskaya bridge and the Saint Petersburg TV Tower (background)

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