Kyiv TV Tower
All-welded steel lattice mast soaring above a former cemetery, the tallest structure in the country.
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This guide to the Kyiv TV Tower follows a steel lattice design first drawn for the Soviet capital, and the welders who raised it over Kyiv between the late nineteen sixties and nineteen seventy-three. It asks why Kyiv got a design Moscow did not want, and what orders came attached. Best heard from the base, looking straight up the welded pipes.
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