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Do you see this hole in the first photo? But this is the beginning of the construction of a grandiose structure - the Ostankino Tower. “For a hundred years now I’ve been dreaming of visiting the restaurant “Seventh Heaven” and walking on the glass floor. And in general it would be very tempting to visit inside. Were you there? Interesting?

But let's take a look and read how the construction went...

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In 1960, the seven-year construction of the Ostankino TV Tower began in Moscow, today the tallest structure in Europe (its height is 540.1 m). Ostankino TV Tower ranks 8th in the world after the Burj Khalifa (Dubai), Tokyo Sky Tree, Shanghai Tower (Shanghai), Abraj al-Bayt (Mecca), Guangzhou TV Tower, CN Tower (Toronto) and Freedom Tower (New York).

The tower, which weighs more than 32 thousand tons, was erected on a monolithic circular reinforced concrete foundation with a width of 9.5 meters, a height of 3 meters and a diameter (circumscribed circle) of 74 meters. In the decagonal reinforced concrete strip of the foundation, using a system of ring-stressed reinforcement (it consists of 104 bundles, each bundle has 24 wires with a diameter of 5 millimeters each), a preliminary stress is created - each bundle is tensioned with hydraulic jacks with a force of about 60 tons.

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The foundation is laid in the ground to a depth of 4.65 meters. It is expected that it will settle by 3-3.5 centimeters. The tower's stability against overturning has a six-fold margin.

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The reinforced concrete support of the entire structure is a thin-walled conical shell supported by ten reinforced concrete “legs” on the foundation benches. The diameter of the lower base of this shell is 60.6 meters, and at a height of 63 meters it is 18 meters. The upper part of the reinforced concrete shaft, starting from a height of 321 meters, is made in the form of a cylinder with an outer diameter of 8.1 meters. The thickness of the walls at the base of the tower is 500 millimeters.

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In the center of the conical base, on a separate foundation (a round reinforced concrete slab with a diameter of 12 meters and a thickness of 1 meter), a reinforced concrete glass with a height of 63 meters and a diameter of 7.5 meters was erected. This glass contains high-speed elevators, power cables, communication cables, a shaft with water supply and sewer risers and an emergency steel staircase. The ends of the beams of fifteen interfloor ceilings rest on the glass, and a staircase runs between the glass and the conical base. The construction of separate foundations for two independent structures - the tower and the glass - allows different pressures to be transferred to the ground when they settle unevenly.

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Under the influence of wind load, the upper part of the tower can oscillate, and the deflection of its top in strong winds can reach 10 meters. With winds that occur in Moscow quite often, on average once a week, visitors to observation decks and restaurants will feel the vibrations of the tower in approximately the same way as the rocking of a ship with an amplitude of 8 centimeters with a period of vibration of 10 seconds.

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There is another “enemy” at the tower. This is... the sun. Due to one-sided heating, the trunk moves (from curvature) at the top by 2.25 meters, at the level of the observation platforms - by 0.72 meters. To reduce deformations from wind loads and from one-sided heating, 150 steel cables were stretched at a distance of 50 millimeters from the inner surface of the barrel. Their total tension force is 10,400 tons—this is the weight of an ocean-going steamer. The cables will absorb tensile forces and protect the concrete from cracks, and, consequently, the reinforcement from corrosion.

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Several metal antennas with a total height of 148 meters are installed on the reinforced concrete part of the tower. The antennas are made in the form of steel pipes. There are rigid diaphragms inside the pipes. A special elevator is used to service antennas up to a height of 470 meters. To inspect and dismantle vibrators, as well as periodically paint the steel structures of the antennas, 6 platforms with railings are installed and cradles are suspended.

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During the construction of the tower, the latest advances in construction technology were widely used. A unique tower crane BK-1000 with a lifting capacity of 16 tons (with a boom reach of 45 meters) was used to assemble and install metal structures. The tower trunk was constructed using the world's only self-elevating unit weighing about 300 tons. Concrete was delivered to this unit by elevators.

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At a separate site, sections of metal antennas were assembled using a SKG-100 crawler crane (with a lifting capacity of 100 tons). This was a control assembly. At the same time, equipment was mounted on the antennas and vibrators were installed. Then the antenna sections were disassembled again, and their individual parts - drawers - were transported by crane to the loading area at a height of 63 meters. Then, using a special crane installed on the tower trunk, the first drawers were lifted to the top of the tower and mounted so that they went 10 meters inside its trunk. And after that the installation was carried out using a crawling crane.

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The design of the architectural and construction part of the television tower was developed by the Central Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Buildings and Sports Facilities. Team of authors: design engineer N. Nikitin, architects D. Burdin, L. Batalov, V. Milashevsky, design engineer B. Zlobin, plumbing engineer T. Melik-Arakelyan. Separate parts of the project were developed by Mosproekt-1 and 19 other design organizations. The general design organization is GSPI of the USSR Ministry of Communications. The technological part of the project is carried out by a team of authors under the leadership of engineer I. Ostrovsky.

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After control assembly and adjustment of the antennas on the stand, individual mounting elements (tsents) weighing up to 25 tons are transferred by a crawler crane to the operating area of ​​the ring crane. He lifts the drawer to the loading platform at a height of 63 m. An overhead crane, located at a height of 385 m, lifts the drawers to another transfer site located at a height of 370 meters. Then the self-lifting crane, moving along the mounted drawers, installs the newly arriving drawers on top of each other.

The last, topmost link is lifted by the crane from its middle. To maintain the vertical position of the link, its lower end is artificially weighted.

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Construction took place from 1960 to 1967, and in November 1967, the broadcast of four television and three radio programs began over a distance of 120 km.

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The Seventh Heaven restaurant at an altitude of 337 meters is ready to receive guests, 1967.

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Equipment room of the central radio relay communication on the Ostankino TV tower, 1982.

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An installer checks the condition of meteorological instruments installed on the Ostankino TV tower, 1970.

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On August 27, 2000, a fire occurred in the tower at an altitude of 460 m - then 3 floors were completely burned out. The premises were restored by 2008.

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The Ostankino tower was built in just seven years, but the project alone took three years. There is a legend that the creator of the tower, designer Nikolai Nikitin, came up with the shape of this grandiose structure in just one night: the prototype of the tower was an inverted lily with a very thick rod. And now, the needle of the television tower has been towering over the city for 46 years...

Initially, however, the tower could have become like an inverted funnel: Soviet designers convinced Nikitin that the cone-shaped base of the tower must be made solid - otherwise, they say, it will not stand.

But Nikitin was a very experienced designer: his “baggage” included designing the frame of the Palace of the Soviets and Moscow State University, the Stalinist “high-rise” in Warsaw and the “Motherland” monument in Volgograd. A little-known fact: in the late 60s, Nikitin, commissioned by a Japanese company, created a project for a 4-kilometer (!) skyscraper, which received the secret name “Nikitin-Travusha Tower 4000”. It was not built more because of political and bureaucratic inconsistencies than because of impracticability.
Well, Nikitin actually wanted to make four supports for the tower. The compromise option was 10 supports.


On September 27, 1960, the first reinforced concrete blocks were laid into the foundation of the Ostankino Tower. True, construction itself began only three years later in 1963.
The estimated height of the tower was 533 meters. At that time it was the tallest structure in the world. Moreover, the tower was supposed to not only perform the functions of a giant television and radio transmitter: at an altitude of 337 meters on the tower there were observation platforms and the “Seventh Heaven” restaurant, which consisted of three halls-floors - “Bronze”, “Silver” and “Golden”.
Guests were transported to Seventh Heaven by 4 high-speed elevators, and there were seven lifts in total. But that’s not all: the halls of the restaurant slowly rotated around their axis!

The tower was supposed to be completed by the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, so there was an incentive to hurry. The ropes were completed in 1966. And on February 12, 1967, the lifting of the 23-ton base of the unique 148-meter metal antenna, which ends the tower, began.
The tower, which weighs more than 32 thousand tons, was erected on a monolithic circular reinforced concrete foundation with a width of 9.5 meters, a height of 3 meters and a diameter (circumscribed circle) of 74 meters.
In the decagonal reinforced concrete strip of the foundation, using a system of ring-stressed reinforcement (it consists of 104 bundles, each bundle has 24 wires with a diameter of 5 millimeters each), a preliminary stress is created - each bundle is tensioned with hydraulic jacks with a force of about 60 tons.

The foundation is laid in the ground to a depth of 4.65 meters. It is expected that it will settle by 3-3.5 centimeters. The tower's stability against overturning has a six-fold margin.


The reinforced concrete support of the entire structure is a thin-walled conical shell supported by ten reinforced concrete “legs” on the foundation benches. The diameter of the lower base of this shell is 60.6 meters, and at a height of 63 meters it is 18 meters.



The upper part of the reinforced concrete shaft, starting from a height of 321 meters, is made in the form of a cylinder with an outer diameter of 8.1 meters. The thickness of the walls at the base of the tower is 500 millimeters.

In the center of the conical base, on a separate foundation (a round reinforced concrete slab with a diameter of 12 meters and a thickness of 1 meter), a reinforced concrete glass with a height of 63 meters and a diameter of 7.5 meters was erected. This glass contains high-speed elevators, power cables, communication cables, a shaft with water supply and sewer risers and an emergency steel staircase.


The ends of the beams of fifteen interfloor ceilings rest on the glass, and a staircase runs between the glass and the conical base. The construction of separate foundations for two independent structures - the tower and the glass - allows different pressures to be transferred to the ground when they are unevenly settled.

Under the influence of wind load, the upper part of the tower can oscillate, and the deflection of its top in strong winds can reach 10 meters.
With winds that occur in Moscow quite often, on average once a week, visitors to observation decks and restaurants will feel the vibrations of the tower in approximately the same way as the rocking of a ship with an amplitude of 8 centimeters with a period of vibration of 10 seconds.
There is another “enemy” at the tower. This is... the sun. Due to one-sided heating, the trunk moves (from curvature) at the top by 2.25 meters, at the level of the observation platforms - by 0.72 meters.

To reduce deformations from wind loads and from one-sided heating, 150 steel cables were stretched at a distance of 50 millimeters from the inner surface of the barrel. Their total tension force is 10,400 tons, which is the weight of an ocean-going steamer. The cables will take on tensile forces and protect the concrete from cracks, and, consequently, the reinforcement from corrosion.
Several metal antennas with a total height of 148 meters are installed on the reinforced concrete part of the tower. The antennas are made in the form of steel pipes. There are rigid diaphragms inside the pipes. A special elevator is used to service antennas up to a height of 470 meters. To inspect and dismantle vibrators, as well as periodically paint the steel structures of the antennas, 6 platforms with railings are installed and cradles are suspended.
During the construction of the tower, the latest advances in construction technology were widely used. A unique tower crane BK-1000 with a lifting capacity of 16 tons (with a boom reach of 45 meters) was used to assemble and install metal structures. The tower trunk was constructed using the world's only self-elevating unit weighing about 300 tons. Concrete was delivered to this unit by elevators.


At a separate site, sections of metal antennas were assembled using a SKG-100 crawler crane (with a lifting capacity of 100 tons). This was a control assembly. At the same time, equipment was mounted on the antennas and vibrators were installed.
Then the antenna sections were disassembled again, and their individual parts - drawers - were conveyed by crane to the loading area at a height of 63 meters. Then, using a special crane installed on the tower trunk, the first drawers were lifted to the top of the tower and mounted so that they went 10 meters inside its trunk. And after that the installation was carried out using a crawling crane.


The design of the architectural and construction part of the television tower was developed by the Central Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Buildings and Sports Facilities. Team of authors: design engineer N. Nikitin, architects D. Burdin, L. Batalov, V. Milashevsky, design engineer B. Zlobin, plumbing engineer T. Melik-Arakelyan.
Separate parts of the project were developed by Mosproekt-1 and 19 other design organizations. The general design organization is GSPI of the USSR Ministry of Communications. The technological part of the project is carried out by a team of authors under the leadership of engineer I. Ostrovsky.
After control assembly and adjustment of the antennas on the stand, individual mounting elements (tsents) weighing up to 25 tons are transferred by a crawler crane to the operating area of ​​the ring crane. It lifts the drawer to the loading platform to a height of 63 m.
An overhead crane, located at a height of 385 m, lifts the drawers to another loading platform located at a height of 370 meters. Then the self-lifting crane, moving along the mounted drawers, installs the newly arriving drawers on top of each other.


The last, topmost link is lifted by the crane from its middle. To maintain the vertical position of the link, its lower end is artificially weighted.



From a height of 385 m, the ring tracks of ground cranes are visible. In the foreground of the photo you can see a tarpaulin “skirt” with a rope frame. Behind it there are suspended scaffoldings, from which work is carried out to secure the outer formwork and inspect the outer surface of the concrete.










The State Commission signed an act of acceptance of the 1st stage of the Ostankino All-Union Television Center named after. 50th anniversary of the October Revolution - the tower itself then had the name “All-Union Radio and Television Transmitting Station named after. 50th anniversary of October".
At that time, the tower was the tallest structure in the USSR, in Europe and in the world. It was almost 300 meters higher than Moscow State University and more than 200 meters higher than the Eiffel Tower. In 1999, the tower became 7 meters higher: the steel spire grew larger.


Another little-known fact: the tower is structurally a tumbler toy. And this is also the merit of Nikitin. He suggested filling the dug pit with sifted river sand, which became a pillow. A concrete base 60 meters wide and 3.5 meters thick was cast on it. The tower stands on this foundation – and with an 11-fold safety margin.


The vertical deviation of the tower itself in the strongest wind is one meter, the maximum deviation of the spire during a hurricane is 11.5 meters. And the strength of the thin-walled concrete structure was given by one and a half hundred steel ropes, each of which was stretched with a force of 70 tons.

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The Ostankino TV Tower is not just a visiting card of the capital, it is a monument to the grandeur of the Soviet era and at the same time a look into the future of Russian television. Since its construction, the Ostankino TV tower has become one of the symbols of Moscow. There are two observation platforms on it: open and closed, where excursions are organized for residents and guests of the capital from May to October.

The bird's eye view of Moscow during the day and at night is a truly impressive sight, and it will become accessible again after the completion of the renovation work. The reconstruction will also expand the variety of excursions.

A “Technical route” was created with an inspection of the tower from the inside, the ropes that give the structure strength, engineering rooms, etc.

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The birthday of Soviet television is December 31, 1938, and the Ostankino television and radio broadcasting tower has a history of almost half a century. It was built in 1967 by a team of Soviet engineers and architects: N.V. Nikitin, B.A. Zlobin, L.I. Batalov and others.

For that time it was the tallest building in the world (540 meters). Even now, the tower ranks sixth in height among free-standing structures on the planet.

The simplicity and strength of the structure is achieved by using reinforced concrete compressed with steel cables. An equally progressive idea is associated with the foundation of the tower. It's practically gone! According to the plan of chief designer Nikitin, the stability of the tower, standing almost without a foundation on the ground, is realized due to the strong superiority of the mass of the cone-shaped base over the mass of the mast structure. The base is built with 10 supports. The prototype of the tower was an inverted lily.

Ostankino TV tower

The building was built with the aim of expanding the Russian television and radio broadcasting network (the first television tower was on Shabolovka), as well as to introduce people to the capital - as an observation deck at an altitude of 337 meters.

More than 10 million people have visited the observation deck during its existence.

Previously, films about the construction of the TV tower were broadcast in the Ostankino concert hall, and now theater performances, seminars and various conferences are held there. Also in Soviet times, Muscovites and guests of the city had the opportunity to literally be in seventh heaven.

One of the main attractions of the Ostankino TV Tower is the Seventh Heaven restaurant.

It is located at an altitude of 334 meters (approximately the level of the 112th floor of a residential building) directly below the observation deck and occupies three floors, each of which makes circular movements around its axis at a speed of one or two revolutions per 40 minutes.

Excursion to the Ostankino Tower

Route No. 1

The route includes a visit to a spectacular observation deck, where you will see a 360-degree panorama of Moscow at an altitude of 337 m.

Route No. 2

On August 27, 2000, a fire occurred at the Ostankino TV tower, which killed three people; broadcasting of most Russian television channels to Moscow and the Moscow region was suspended . "Amateur" recalls the history of this tower.

The Ostankino TV Tower is a television and radio broadcasting tower that is the fourth tallest free-standing structure in the world. The height of the Ostankino TV tower is 540 meters. At first it was called “All-Union Radio and Television Transmitting Station named after. 50th anniversary of the USSR". The Ostankino Tower today covers an area inhabited by more than 15 million people.

The TV tower was built by order of the USSR Ministry of Communications

The TV tower was built by order of the USSR Ministry of Communications. The decision to build the tower was made in 1957; construction began in 1963, and it was completed in 1967. Soviet builders needed to build a structure of unprecedented height. At first they planned to build a steel tower based on the principle of a power line mast, but the architect and designer Nikolai Nikitin proposed a different solution. His version was a monolith made of prestressed concrete. The architect N.V. Nikitin came up with the design of the Ostankino Tower in one night, taking as a model an inverted lily flower - a thick stem turning into powerful supporting petals. In the first version, the building had only four supports, and then their number was increased to 10.

The weight of the Ostankino tower was distributed between the base and the trunk in a strict proportion of 1:3. The center of gravity is located at a height of 110 meters, the diameter of the foundation is 63 meters. A trunk of this height must be stable and flexible, but even during strong gusts of wind it must not deviate from the central axis by more than one meter. Such conditions could be ensured by a reliable, strong foundation, which was achieved by tightening the base and boom of the trunk with many steel ropes.

The weight of the tower was distributed in a strict proportion of 1:3

The following people took part in the construction of the tower: chief designer N.V. Nikitin, engineers M.A. Shkud and B.A. Zlobin, chief architect L.I. Batalov, as well as architects D.I. Burdin, M.A. Shkud and L. I. Shchipakin. The artistic embodiment of the tower project was architect Leonid Batalov, who headed workshop No. 7 of Mosproekt.

During the construction of the Ostankino Tower, another innovative find was used - a relatively shallow foundation. Typically, during the construction of such high-rise structures, a deep foundation was used as a counterweight, and for the Ostankino Tower it had a depth of 3.5 to 4.6 m, less than that of a conventional factory chimney. The structure had to rest mainly on the ground, gaining stability due to the multiple excess of the mass of the base over the mass of the mast structure.

When constructing the tower, a shallow foundation was used

Preliminary calculations showed that in strong winds such a structure has practically no chance of surviving. According to Canadian builders who built a similar tower at home, the foundation must be at least 40 meters high. But Nikitin and his associates managed to successfully solve this problem.

True, it took him ten years to defend his project. Moreover, the critics were stopped not so much by the height of the future tower as by the lack of the usual powerful foundation. The designer argued that the balanced tension of the ropes located inside the tower would connect the entire structure into such a reliable system that it would not be afraid of even the strongest wind. Nikitin said: “A person has an even smaller area of ​​support on his feet, but he doesn’t fall.”

As a result, the project was approved, and on September 27, 1960, construction began on the Ostankino tower. The construction was completed by raising the multi-ton base of a metal antenna similar to a spike, its size was 148 meters, this event took place on February 12, 1967. The safety margin of the Ostankino TV tower allows it to withstand an earthquake of 8 points on the Richter scale and hurricane winds of 44 meters per second. At the time of construction, the Ostankino TV Tower became the tallest building in the world. In 1970, the main participants in the construction of the TV tower in Moscow were awarded various high government awards.

The safety factor of the TV tower allows it to withstand an earthquake of 8 points

Nikolay Nikitin (Doctor of Technical Sciences, author of the tower design), Dmitry Burdin (chief architect of the project), Moisey Shkud (chief engineer of GSPI), Boris Zlobin - chief engineer of the TsNIIEP project, Lev Shchipakin - director of the research enterprise Proektpromstalkonstruktsiya were awarded the titles of Lenin Laureates awards.

The technical characteristics of the Ostankino tower are as follows: height - 522 m (with a flagpole - 540 m), base height above sea level - 160 m, foundation depth - 4.6 m, weight of the tower with foundation - 51,400 tons. The conical base of the tower has 10 supports , the average distance between supports is 65 m. The maximum theoretical deviation of the top of the tower is 12 m. The main observation deck of the Ostankino Tower is at a level of 337 meters. The supporting area of ​​the foundation is 2,037 square meters. m, and the total usable area of ​​the premises located in the tower is 15,000 sq. m. m.

Let's tell you a little more about the structure of the Ostankino Tower. Up to a height of 385 meters, it is built from pre-stressed concrete. At the 63-meter mark, the diameter narrows to 18 meters, and the upper edge of the concrete part is 7.5 meters thick. Inside the trunk, steel ropes are stretched from top to bottom around the circumference, each of which is stretched with a force of 70 tons. The body of the Ostankino tower is compressed with a force of 10,500 tons, which reliably protects it from destructive external influences.

There are a total of seven elevators in the tower, but only five are currently operational. The speed of the elevators automatically changes depending on the signals from sensors that control the amplitude of the tower's deflection. Electricity is supplied to the elevator car in a non-contact inductive manner using the transformer principle. For this purpose, current collectors are attached to the elevator car, and elements of inductive energy transmission are located in the shaft.

At a level of 337 meters there is a circular observation hall, fenced with glass - from here a breathtaking panorama of Moscow opens. Before a fire broke out in the tower in 2000, the famous Seventh Heaven restaurant was located at an altitude of 328-334 m. It was located on three floors (gold, silver and bronze), each of which made circular rotations around its axis at a speed of one to two revolutions every 40 minutes. Over the course of 30 years, more than 10 million people have visited this restaurant and observation deck.

The building of the excursion building houses the Royal Concert Hall, as well as the directorate of the Moscow regional center of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network”. As a rule, the hall hosts concerts, various theatrical performances, conferences and seminars. The total number of seats in the hall is 750, of which 385 are in the stalls and 392 in the amphitheater.

The creators of the Ostankino TV tower prophesied its life for 300 years, and indeed, it withstood two severe hurricanes, but the fire that started on August 27, 2000 caused enormous damage to it. The outbreak was located at a level of 460 meters, three floors of the tower were completely burned out. During the liquidation of the disaster, three people died: fire crew commander Vladimir Arsyukov, who decided to personally climb to the height of the fire, elevator operator Svetlana Loseva, whom he ordered to go with him, and repairman Alexander Shipilin.

The creators of the Ostankino TV tower prophesied its life of 300 years

Feeders (transmission line, transfer line, electrical device through which the directional propagation of electromagnetic waves from source to consumer), which had external polyethylene shells, burned with great intensity. Burning drops of polyethylene falling down contributed to the outbreak of fires at other levels. When the temperature rose to approximately 1000 degrees Celsius, burning parts of the feeders began to fall down. Firefighters tried to isolate the lower areas with asbestos sheets, but the protruding structures of the Ostankino tower left gaps in them, through which the molten mass still fell down.

The total damage caused to the structure was as follows: out of 150 ropes of prestressed reinforcement, 121 were damaged, the elevator facilities were completely out of order, the power supply, ventilation, air conditioning, heat and water supply, communications and alarm systems were disrupted.

The restoration of the Ostankino Tower took seven years. As a result, the structure was again strengthened with cables, non-flammable cables were laid inside, elevators that could withstand very high temperatures, as well as other modern equipment were installed.

The observation deck was completely refurbished in January 2009 and opened for pilot tours in March. Now one-hour tours of the Ostankino TV tower are held daily. On weekends, ticket prices are higher than on weekdays. According to the requirements put forward by the Ministry of Emergency Situations, excursion groups can include more than 30 people. Of the three restaurants, only one is still open.

In the future, it is planned to increase the height of the Ostankino TV tower to 560 meters, thereby making it the tallest television structure in the world.

There are many interesting facts associated with the Ostankino Tower. Races are held along its stairs to a height of 337 meters. And on the 40th anniversary of the tower, base jumpers made their dizzying jumps from it. BASE jumping is one of the most dangerous extreme sports. Its name comes from the English abbreviation B.A.S.E - the first letters of the words building (building), antenna (antenna), span (bridge), earth (in this case - natural relief). It is from these four types of objects that basers jump. Jumping from buildings is the second most dangerous. The Ostankino TV Tower is also mentioned in literary works.

An excursion to the Ostankino Tower usually leaves a lot of impressions. Huge height, breathtaking view, including right under your feet (in some places on the site there is a glass floor).

But there are also not particularly enthusiastic reviews, because shortcomings can also be found.

Firstly, the procedure for becoming one of the excursionists is not the simplest - first you need to register, then you buy tickets. Identification documents are required, including for minors.

You have to go through a security check (although this is no longer uncommon these days).

Among the complaints regarding the essence of the excursion program, reviews include complaints about the too short time spent in “seventh heaven” (one hour). Moreover, regardless of whether tickets were purchased for the upper (open) platform (its height is 340 meters above Moscow level), or only for the lower (closed - 337 meters) - the duration of the inspection does not change.

Another complaint is that it is often difficult to get through to the call center.

Visits are only possible in groups.

Not everyone is happy with the elevator: it is big, beautiful and fast - but it gets too many people.

On the upper, open area (sometimes called a balcony) there is a concrete fence clearly taller than the height of a seven-year-old child (from the age of 7 you can go on an excursion, younger ones - not).
The protective mesh has fairly dense cells - this somewhat muffles the feelings arising in the chest. But for security reasons, apparently, it was impossible to do otherwise.

By the way, in bad weather the passage to the “balcony” is closed (for example, if there is a very strong wind, and this is not uncommon at such an altitude), and then the money for this part of the excursion will be refunded.

However, the most negative comments are caused by the high cost of climbing the TV tower. A visit to both sites while it was still possible (before the onset of winter and the closure of the upper one) cost 1,200 rubles.

True, there is a good way to save money: you need to choose the first sessions to attend - 10.00 and 11.00 (on a visit for the full program, the savings amounted to 500 rubles)