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	Ostankino Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ostankino Tower is a free-standing television and radio tower in Moscow, Russia.
		It held the record for the tallest free-standing structure in the world for one decade, until the CN Tower was built in Toronto, Canada.
		The tower caught fire on 27 August 2000, disrupting television and radio signals to the 18 million people in and around Moscow.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ostankino_Tower (331 words)

	Ostankino Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ostankino Tower, also called the Moscow Beauty, is a free-standing television and radio tower in Moscow, originally 540 m (1772 ft) in height, designed by.
		As part of the process, in 2003, the Ostankino Tower's new pinnacle raised its height to 577.44 metres (1894 ft), making it once again the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world.
		The reconstruction was completed and the tower reopened in 2004.
	www.parmaheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Ostankino_Tower (227 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| Towering inferno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ostankino television tower resembles a syringe and is familiarly referred to by Muscovites as "The Syringe." By extension, this metaphor is commonly used to describe people's addiction to a certain mixture of psychotronic programming applied by tele-injection.
		A snapshot with the "raising rocket" monument -- honouring the USSR's achievements in the exploration of the outer space -- in the foreground and the Ostankino tower behind it is an often met memorable image of glory of the Socialist state and its myth.
		The Ostankino tower is in itself a multidimensional symbol, hence when it caught fire, the tower at once became "a symbol multiplied by itself" -- as one Russian journalist put it -- one that has many different interpretations.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/502/in4.htm (1104 words)

	Ostankino Palace: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ostankino is a former summer residence House quick summary:
		Ostankino is first mentioned in the 16th century as Ostashkovo, EHandler: no quick summary.
		A palace is an important urban residence of a royal or noble family, with its origins as the executive power center of a kingdom or empire....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/os/ostankino_palace.htm (849 words)

	Ostankino Tower, Moscow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In August 2000 a fire in the top of the tower seriously damaged its structure and the local authorities were even considering to demolish it as security measure.
		Increasing the height of the tower to 1,845 ft (561 m) was not possible because of a lack of financing.
		The tower was modernised and strengtned after the fire that took place in 2000, work was completed before 2004.
	www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu?id=111722 (278 words)

	Indbazaar - Travel Now :: International - It's a tall order!
		Erected in 1967, the Ostankino Tower is an architectural miracle, especially in a city not known for skyscrapers.
		The Ostankino Tower is renowned for being the largest multi-profile communications structure housing state-of-the-art equipment.
		CN tower, based in Toronto, Canada, built in 1975, is a telecommunications tower and an entertainment complex.
	www.indbazaar.com /travel/display.asp?artid=527 (1133 words)

	Ostankino Tower Suffers From Disrepair
		The landmark Moscow television tower gutted by a fire in August fire has developed cracks in its concrete walls because the government failed to repair the damage quickly, a construction official said Thursday.
		For decades, the tower stood as a symbol of the Soviet Union's technological might.
		It surpassed the Empire State Building as the world's tallest freestanding structure when it was built in 1967, and held the title until 1975 when it was surpassed by the CN tower in Toronto.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/11/16/167-print.html (251 words)

	Moscow's Ostankino TV tower goes up in flames
		As the blaze spread through the tower the stabilising steel cables inside were melting one after another in the intense heat, threatening to send the whole building toppling over.
		The tower's leaning and its instability due to the loss of more than half the 149 supporting cables, which were an essential component of the special construction of the tower, unleashed fierce arguments over whether the structure would stay standing.
		He is not only famous for building the Ostankino tower, but for constructing the new main building of Moscow's Lomonossov University in 1953 and the “Mother-homeland” monument in Volgograd, which commemorates the decisive battle of Stalingrad against Hitler's fascist troops.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/aug2000/mosc-a30.shtml (1677 words)

	CENTER OF MOSCOW REGION - BRANCH OF RTRN: General Information
		The tower is a very popular excursion destination for Muscovites and guests of the capital alike.
		The total height of the Ostankino Tower is 540 meters.
		At one time, the Ostankino TV Tower was the highest construction in the world, a distinction it held for almost 10 years.
	www.tvtower.ru /2_Razdel_TotalInfo/eng (380 words)

	Pravda.RU:Ostankino tower in Moscow to receive tourists again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Repairs of the famous Ostankino TV tower, the tallest building in Russia and one of the tallest constructions in the world, continue in Moscow.
		The tower was seriously damaged in the fire in 2000.
		The tower is already functioning as a television and radio transmitter.
	newsfromrussia.com /society/2002/12/18/41001_.html (188 words)

	kiat.net: Kuala Lumpur - Menara KL
		Completed in May, 1996 and acting as the country's main telecommunications and multimedia broadcasting tower, Menara Kuala Lumpur - or KL Tower - is perched atop Bukit Nanas and rises to a height of 421m (1403 ft); a highly visible and prestigious landmark.
		Muqarnas was constructed in the arrangement of glasses on the domes of the lobby entrance to illustrate the 7 layers of the sky with sun rays shining from the middle.
		The entire 6-level tower head is clad in glass (double-glazed with gas infilled) arranged in the traditional Islamic form of the "muqarnas".
	www.kiat.net /malaysia/KL/kltower.html (1279 words)

	Ostankino Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ostankino Tower is a free-standing television and radio tower in Moscow, originally 540 meters in height, designed by Nikolai Nikitin.
		It is the tallest free-standing structure in the world and is a member of the World Federation of Great Towers.
		However, according to some information, in 2003 a new antenna was installed, making it at 577 meters once again the world's tallest free-standing structure, surpassing the CN Tower in Toronto.
	centipedia.com /index.php?title=Ostankino_Tower&action=creativecommons (167 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| The Ostankino inferno
		The fire started in the tower's thin spire and because of a short circuit spread downward, cutting broadcasts to the capital and burning the observation deck and restaurant.
		Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry which is dealing with the after-effects of the Ostankino Tower inferno said that automatic fire-fighting systems within the tower appeared to have failed or had run out of fire-suppressing foam.
		The Ostankino Tower inferno is the latest in a series of disasters in Moscow and around the country such as gas explosions, industrial accidents and breakdowns in the power grids.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/497/in1.htm (567 words)

	Second-tallest tower of the world still ablaze
		A Moscow city surveyor on the scene, Vladimir Aleksin, said the tower's upper spire had tilted slightly, and that the tip of the structure was off-center by about two meters.
		Visitors were quickly evacuated from the tower's restaurant and observation deck, which were engulfed several hours later as the fire moved down the structure.
		The Ostankino tower was erected in 1967, and like many projects of the time, played its own small role in the Soviet-U.S. rivalry.
	bangla2000.com /news/archive/international/8-29-2000/news_detail1.html (782 words)

	CNN.com - Russia tower fire 'under control' - August 28, 2000
		Rescue workers and officials said that the mesh of steel wires forming the skeleton of the tower had been damaged and the heat was so intense it had buckled staircases.
		Automatic firefighting systems within the tower appeared to have failed or had run out of fire-suppressing foam, they added, and at least two elevators are known to have been damaged.
		The Ostankino tower was completed in 1967 and was the world's highest tower until Toronto's CN Tower was constructed.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/08/28/moscow.fire.03 (747 words)

	World's Tallest Towers
		A tower differs from a building in that the latter has floors, and is designed for residential, business, or manufacturing use.
		The structures listed here are principally telecommunications towers, and while they may have observation decks or restaurants, they do not have floors all the way up.
		Towers and buildings are freestanding structures; this list does not include masts supported by guy wires.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0886190.html (307 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Moscow tower blaze 'under control'
		A fire that has gutted the landmark Ostankino television tower in Moscow - one of the world's tallest buildings - is reported to have been brought under control.
		The Soviet-era structure is a symbol of Moscow, twice the height of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
		A rescue official said the heat inside the tower was so intense it had buckled staircases.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/898657.stm (642 words)

	EBRD funds repairs of Moscow's Ostankino TV tower [EBRD - Stories]
		The tower is visible from most parts of the city.
		Moscow's 485-metre Ostankino Tower is the second-tallest building in the world after Toronto's CN Tower.
		Many dishes on the tower had to be lowered to 149 metres, to less than a third of their pre-fire height.
	www.ebrd.com /new/stories/2003/030409x.htm (387 words)

	Ostankino TV Tower fire
		The fire has been put out, the tower may be saved and a temporary transmittor has been erected and some broadcasts have been restored.
		But with 4 people dead the fire at Ostankino is the latest in a series of tragedies to befall Russia and is, according to Vladimir Putin, symptomatic of the country's ills.
		When the tower was completed in 1967, it was the tallest free-standing structure in the world, today only the CN Tower in Toronto is taller.
	members.tripod.com /rossiya_david/id176.htm (231 words)

	MediaChannel.org - OP-ED \| TV Towers
		In Putin's Chechen war the TV tower in Grozny was recently a Russian target and so were the Baltic TV towers during the events that finally lead to the collapse of Communism.
		Putin, with the Ostankino tower threatening to collapse into a heap of glowing steel and cables and with state television mute, had to borrow air from the private broadcaster, NTV, with whom he is involved in an escalating media war over intricate business transactions, ownership and control of information.
		In Lithuania crosses drawn on the TV tower still remind visitors of the lives claimed in 1991 when the citizens of Vilnius, alerted by Lithuanian radio, went out to defend their television tower against the Russian Special Forces.
	www.mediachannel.org /views/oped/kaca.shtml (2007 words)

	CNN.com - Fire rages in Moscow's giant TV tower - August 27, 2000
		White smoke could be seen coming out of the upper half of the tower, which was the tallest freestanding structure in the world when it was completed in 1967.
		At that point, the tower's spire is extremely narrow and firefighters were reportedly having difficulty maneuvering in the cramped quarters.
		The tower, taller than the Sears Tower in Chicago, is made of reinforced concrete and the interior has a bank of elevators and a single emergency stairwell.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/08/27/moscow.fire (806 words)

	Austrian Wounded as Ostankino BASE-Jump Goes Awry - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A parachutist was injured after she jumped from Moscow’s Ostankino tower — the highest building in Europe — in an athletic competition on Thursday.
		The parachute of one of the women got caught on a walkway railing surrounding the top of the tower, and the woman hit the wall of the tower in view of the rest of the athletes.
		Ostankino tower management confirmed the incident in a statement to MosNews, but declined to elaborate.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2004/07/01/parachute.shtml (548 words)

	Skyscraper City - CN Tower vs Ostankino Tower vs Stratosphere Tower
		CN Tower vs Ostankino Tower vs Stratosphere Tower
		I went up the CN tower for the first time in the late 70's and the elevator operator joked that the tower was insured for a certain period of time.
		I've been up the CN Tower (which actually changed its name from Canadian National to Canada's National Tower after CN Rail sold its ownership) several times, and seen the Stratosphere up close, but haven't seen Ostankino in person.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=148833 (572 words)

	Ostankino TV tower to become 40 meters taller - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The 540-meter-high tower was the world's tallest free-standing structure when it was built in 1967.
		The tower's electrical equipment was checked up in May 2000, and it was then recommended that 38 safety measures be implemented to prevent possible blaze.
		On Tuesday, the firemen who had contributed to the fire-fighting operation at Ostankino two years ago staged a rally outside the tower to commemorate the event.
	english.pravda.ru /society/2002/08/27/35404.html (485 words)

	News: Ostankino Tower will be repaired (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Inside steel cables which support the tower at height of 136m were seriously damaged.
		There was an extraction zone of 700m in the case the tower would collapse.It was removed on 30th because experts said that despite the great damage in support cables the tower will not collapse.
		Click on Ostankino Tower in Moscow for more information.
	www.emporis.com /en/bu/nc/ne?id=100239 (352 words)

	BASE-Jumping Forums - Ostankino TV tower
		Ostankino TV tower in Moscow (exit at 365m) has finally been jumped today.
		Jumps were legal and received a very positive TV coverage (being a famous tv tower, obviously...
		What is the state of the tower after the fire?
	www.blincmagazine.com /forum/printthread.php?t=18733 (377 words)

	Ostankino Tele Tower - SkyscraperPage.com
		The Ostankino Tower was the world's tallest free-standing structure at the time it was built.
		The tower was completed to mark the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution.
		Named after the Ostankino district of Moscow in which it is located.
	www.skyscraperpage.com /cities?buildingID=24 (73 words)

	Ostankino Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Erected in 1967, Moscow's Ostankino TV and BC Tower
		More than a tourist attraction, the Ostankino TV & BC Tower transmits the signals of 11 television
		The Ostankino Tower is renowned for being the
	www.geocities.com /PicketFence/5192/ostankino.html (108 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Ostankino Tower [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ostankino Tower, also called the Moscow Beauty, is a free-standing television and radio tower in Moscow, originally 540 meters in height, designed by Nikolai Nikitin.
		"The total height of the Ostankino Tower is 540.1 meters (1772 ft.).
		When one takes into account its public solemnity and striking design, its functional and technical importance in providing Moscow with high-quality radio and TV communication, one can say without hesitation that the Ostankino Tower has no equal in the world."
	encyclozine.com /Ostankino_Tower (248 words)

	Structurae [en]: Ostankino Tower (1967)
		Fire erupts at the top of the tower.
		BBC News: Moscow tower blaze 'under control' (28.08.2000)
		Reina, Peter Moscow Tower's Future Unknown, in "Engineering News Record", 4 September 2000.
	en.structurae.de /structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0000279 (105 words)

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