Almaty Tower, Television tower in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Almaty Tower is a 371.5-metre steel tubular structure, not concrete, with a 114-metre antenna mast reaching 1,000 metres above sea level. Its shaft is a stepped sixteen-sided metal form clad in profiled aluminium panels, 18.5 metres wide at the base and narrowing to 13 and 9 metres at the 146-metre and 252-metre service and observation levels. Two 1,000-kg lifts run inside the shaft; the tower is not open to the public.

Built from 1975 to 1983 and put into service on 1 June 1984 at a cost of 600 million rubles, the tower was designed by architects Terziev, Savchenko and Akimov, with the steel structure developed under B. V. Ostroumov at the Melnikov Central Research and Design Institute. In October 1984 a fire destroyed the TV transmitter feeders after errors in calculating radio power distribution across the antenna panels. On 10 November 2010 it kept its status as a monument of local importance.

The tower's name comes from Kok Tobe, Kazakh for "green hill", the mountain slope where it stands. On its north-western wall a 20-metre-long, 8-metre-high mosaic commemorates the launch of the Soyuz T-12 spacecraft, showing satellites and astronauts; its authors are unknown. The tower is a state monument of urban planning and architecture.

The tower is a restricted strategic facility and is not open to the public, so the two observation decks at 146 m and 252 m cannot be visited. The structure stands on the slopes of Kok Tobe at 1,000 m above sea level, southeast of downtown Almaty, and is reached by road up the mountain. Its 20 m by 8 m mosaic of satellites and astronauts can be seen on the north-western wall of the technical building.

The tower's shaft is a sixteen-sided steel polygon clad in profiled aluminium panels, 18.5 m across at the base and narrowing to 13 m and 9 m at the service and observation levels. Inside, four two-mass dynamic dampers of 10 tonnes each, developed at the Melnikov Institute, sit on the second floor to reduce resonant sway.