Leningrad TV tower
Television tower of the Leningrad radio and television transmitting center.
Two model options are available:
- tower with an authentic building of the transmitting center (TV station);
- separate tower to combine with any radio/TV station (observation tower or monument).
The tower is placed on a 4-meter embankment, higher relative to the main building.
Television tower of the Leningrad Radio and Television Transmitting Center. The television tower has a truss structure. Its base is a truss trunk consisting of three truncated pyramids tapering toward the top, welded from hollow steel rods. Inside, there is a concrete shaft, painted in red and white stripes, with two high-speed elevators. At the top of the trunk, at the 187 m mark, there is a three-level glazed lantern on a metal frame, shaped like a truncated pyramid tapering toward the bottom. The top floor is occupied by elevator machine rooms and various telecommunications equipment, the lower two were originally intended for tourists.
After the war, television broadcasting in Leningrad was carried out by the Experimental Leningrad Television Center from a 121-meter television tower. However, the capacity of the OLTC was insufficient, so in 1951 a project was developed for the construction of a multi-program television center, to which, according to the order of the Council of Ministers of the USSR dated January 26, 1952, it was planned to build a television tower.
The tower project was developed by architect Vladimir Vasilkovsky, an honored artist of the RSFSR. Engineering support for the project was provided by the UkrNIIproektstalkonstruktsiya Institute, and the metal structures for it were manufactured at the Dnepropetrovsk Metal Structures Plant. Initially, it was planned to assemble the tower on the territory of the television center on Chapygina Street, but there was not enough space on the allocated site, so the tower was moved 600 meters away, to the swampy bank of the Bolshaya Nevka.
Construction of the television tower began in 1953. Due to poor soil conditions at the construction site, 250 24-meter reinforced concrete piles had to be driven in, and 1,500 m³ of grillage had to be poured onto them. The assembly of the supporting structure was carried out in stages: first, hollow steel rods were mounted, fastened with bolted joints, then the fastened parts were welded. The elevators for the tower were manufactured at the Karacharovsky Plant in Moscow. The installation of the TV tower was completed in November 1962, and the first broadcast began on February 23, 1963. Since January 1, 1964, the TV tower began to perform the functions of a high-altitude weather station: gradient meteorological measurements were carried out at different levels.
At the time of its construction, the TV tower became the tallest structure in Europe: with a height of 316 m, it surpassed the Eiffel Tower by 4 meters. An observation deck operated in the glass lantern at a height of about 200 meters, but it was closed quite soon, not least because of the low capacity of the elevators, which could accommodate 3 people each. The radius of the broadcast coverage from it was about 100 km.
Model, textures, config, debugging – Shotkey
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