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Kyiv TV Tower

Kyiv, Ukraine

The 20th tallest tower in the world

385 m · 1,263 ft

The Kyiv TV Tower (Kyivska televezha) is a 385 m-high (1, 263 ft) lattice metal tower on Oranzhereina Street, Kyiv, Ukraine, and is the tallest structure in the country. The tower was built in 1973 while Kyiv was the capital of the Ukrainian SSR. The tower was the tallest freestanding metal structure in the world. It is used for radio and television broadcasting and is not open to the public. It is the second tallest lattice tower in the world and sixth tallest standing structure in Europe.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

More tall towers in Ukraine

  1. Rivne TV Tower239.5 m
  2. Kherson TV Tower199 m
  3. Great Lavra Bell Tower m
  4. Zaporizhzhia Pylon Triple m
  5. St. Elijah Church, Chernihiv m

Other tall towers worldwide

  1. Warsaw radio mast · Konstantynów646.4 m
  2. Tokyo Skytree · Oshiage634 m
  3. KRDK-TV mast · Traill County627.8 m
  4. Diversified Communications Tower · South Carolina609.6 m
  5. KATV tower · Jefferson County609.6 m
  6. KVLY-TV mast · Blanchard605 m
  7. Abraj Al Bait · Mecca601 m
  8. Canton Tower · Chigang Subdistrict600 m