TV Tower Vinnytsia, Television transmission tower in Vinnytsia, Ukraine.
TV Tower Vinnytsia is a guyed steel tube mast 353.25 m tall, built to a 1957 TsNIIPSK design led by E. N. Seleznyova. The tube is 2.5 m in diameter, with a lift inside making eight stops up to 309 m. Two levels of three crossbars at 120 degrees anchor the guy cables: the lower at 155.5 m spanning 121.5 m, the upper at 233.5 m spanning 98 m.
Built in 1961 and operational from 1963, the mast was the tallest structure in the USSR until the Ostankino Tower rose in 1967, and the tallest in Soviet Ukraine until the Kyiv TV tower was completed in 1973. A 2002 overhaul replaced its support structures and cables. On 16 March 2022 a rocket struck the complex at 4:30; no one was hurt, but T2 television signal was lost for several days.
The tower has been the main source of local broadcast signals reaching homes across the city for generations. Its position in the skyline makes it a familiar reference point that residents use to navigate and orient themselves.
The mast stands at Maksymovycha Street 23, on ground about 300 metres above sea level, so it rises roughly 650 metres above the city's lower districts. The site belongs to the Vinnytsia regional radio and television transmitting centre; the tower itself is a working antenna, not an observation deck, and the lift inside the tube is not open to visitors.
The mast is a steel tube only 2.5 metres in diameter, braced by two tiers of three crossbars set 120 degrees apart, to which the guy cables are fixed. Its lift inside the tube makes eight stops and rises to 309 metres. The design came from a 1957 TsNIIPSK project led by E. N. Seleznyova, first realised in the 1958 Obninsk meteorological mast.
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