I read about plans to build a 400m+ TV Tower in Minsk. These plans seem to be cancelled although the Kolodischi TV Mast, which is now the main TV broadcasting tower at Minsk area has no further capacity for installing new antennas. So, is the plan really totally canceled?

Yeah, I remember the idea many years ago. As I remember, Chinese were supposed to build it. There is no any further news about it for many years. The project is cancelled almost for sure.

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Why do they not build a partially guyed tower like Gerbrandytoren ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbrandy_Tower ).

TV tower in Minsk will not build
23/06/2006

TV tower in Minsk will not build

Government of Belarus has decided to abandon the construction of the tower in Minsk. Told a meeting of the presidium of the Council of Ministers, which discussed the draft of the Telecommunications Program for 2006-2010, Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky.

The reason - it's expensive. Construction of the tower would cost at least $ 100 million. For comparison, the construction of the recently opened National Library, according to the president of Belarus, had spent 120 million. The budget finances the construction of the tower the Government has not found. Investors - too.

The question of whether the construction of the tower for several years was discussed, including with the participation of the president. And yet decided to improve the quality of the television and radio in a different way.

The need to build a new tower based on the fact that he started working in 1970 in Kolodishchi Tower, which is responsible for the ethereal broadcast on Minsk and the Minsk region, morally and physically obsolete. But the new tower "veil" to the territory of only 100 kilometers around the capital. Now, instead decided to build a dozen new TV and radio broadcasting centers throughout the country.

Especially lobbied for the construction super TV Tower in Minsk, former Communications Minister Vladimir Goncharenko, And when he recently left that post, the project "hacked".

In addition to the technical side of the issue was also aesthetic. TV tower was to be a landmark in Minsk. According to architectural design, it had to be built in the form of "Paparats-кветкі in Vesnyanka neighborhood - near the intersection of Prospect Street and the winners Orel - and go to heaven at 420-425 meters.

Minsk tower could be the third highest in the world after the towers in Toronto (547 m) and Moscow (533). At 60 and 240 meters it was planned to accommodate restaurants and observation platforms.

The old TV tower in Minsk is located in the heart of the capital of Belarus, in front of the television station of the Communist Street, near Victory Square. To see the tower can be from many points of Minsk.

TV tower in Minsk for a long time was the tallest building in the city. Initially it served as the main relay, with which broadcasts television in Belarus. Subsequently, in the suburb of Minsk was built a new repeater and Tower lost its main function. Nevertheless, it is considered one of the main symbols of Minsk, about as the Eiffel Tower in Paris. In order except that the supports under the TV tower in Minsk, you are unlikely to pass - it is in a protected area

original height of 200 m.
height at this time, 170 m.
upper floor, 160 meters

July 13, 1976 at the TV tower was carried out a unique operation. The morning hung over her helicopter. Installers consolidated ropes. A minute later the machine, lifting section, took her on a specially equipped area in the Komsomol lake.

At that time, TV-tower for nearly 20 years, performed its duties. When television and radio broadcasting center was brought into the country, it was used only for mobile TV stations and the transfer of programs from Minsk to the new center


In Minsk tower from 1 January 1956, launched a television studio broadcasts Republican. The range of the efficient coverage reached 70 km. Minsk television studio was located on a street. Kalinina, 6 (Communist, 6). Now this - the Republican television studio.

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In USA towers with multiple pinnacles like old Minsk TV Tower are called "Candelabra Tower". The old TV Tower of Minsk should be renamed into "Minsk Candelabra" ( can be also translated into Russian language).

As far as I know, the construction of the TV tower in Minsk is not true because we are actively developing cable TV, "Cosmos TV" for example has already switched to digital broadcasting, "Beltelecom" recently launched an interactive IPTV, I think in other cities in Belarus as well.

How dead is the project?

Absolutely. :lol:

:goodnight:lock:

The old TV tower in Minsk is located in the heart of the capital of Belarus, in front of the television station of the Communist Street, near Victory Square. To see the tower can be from many points of Minsk.

TV tower in Minsk for a long time was the tallest building in the city. Initially it served as the main relay, with which broadcasts television in Belarus. Subsequently, in the suburb of Minsk was built a new repeater and Tower lost its main function. Nevertheless, it is considered one of the main symbols of Minsk, about as the Eiffel Tower in Paris. In order except that the supports under the TV tower in Minsk, you are unlikely to pass - it is in a protected area

original height of 200 m.
height at this time, 170 m.
upper floor, 160 meters

July 13, 1976 at the TV tower was carried out a unique operation. The morning hung over her helicopter. Installers consolidated ropes. A minute later the machine, lifting section, took her on a specially equipped area in the Komsomol lake.

At that time, TV-tower for nearly 20 years, performed its duties. When television and radio broadcasting center was brought into the country, it was used only for mobile TV stations and the transfer of programs from Minsk to the new center


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Я тут подумал,а почему бы нам не выложить нашу телебашню тут?
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