The building is in Russia, but the truth is it was demolished several years ago. And now this is what is claimed to be the tallest ABANDONED and unfinished building in the world. Or is there something above? Am I missing something?
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At the end of 1983, according to the decision of the Sverdlovsk City Executive Committee, on 8 Marta Street, near the city circus, the construction of a TV tower began. This was a new typical Soviet project, previously implemented in Vilnius and Tallinn. Its design height was 361 meters, it was there that it was planned to transfer all the city's television and radio transmission capacities to cover the entire Sverdlovsk with a TV signal. Also, there was supposed to be a restaurant, like the "Seventh Heaven" on the Ostankino TV tower.
Construction using a unique for that time monolithic-concrete technology was carried out by the Spetszhelezobetonstroy trust, which had previously erected the Vilnius, Ostankino, Tallinn and other TV towers. Extra strong concrete grade 400 was used. Construction was actively carried out until 1989, after which funding interruptions began. However, the construction was not frozen and continued, but with great difficulties, until 1991.
According to some reports, 11 million rubles were allocated for the construction [source not specified 520 days], but only about 2 million were spent.
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In 1991, an economic crisis began in Russia, and funding for the construction of the TV tower stopped. It was completed only to the level of 219.25 m (according to other sources 220.4 m). Since then, no work has been carried out on this site and the tower has been abandoned. The only design change over the years was the installation of high-rise red lights for flight safety at the request of the prosecutor's office in the mid-2000s.
The tower is the tallest building in Yekaterinburg. There are projects for its reconstruction, but so far none of them has been accepted for implementation.
During the 1990s, the tower was a popular destination for suicide, extreme climbers, rock climbers, and basers. By 2005, three cases of suicide were officially recorded, while rumor ascribes more than two dozen cases of suicide to the tower. And in the 2000s, base jumpers took a fancy to her. After that, all possible passages to the tower to climb up were welded.
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In 2003, the tower was given to the Federal State Unitary Enterprise RTRS for a communication facility. In 2007, an investor was found who was ready to invest about 500 million rubles in the completion of the tower, and to equip a zone of business centers around to recoup the costs, but the financial crisis of 2008 brought down these plans.
RTRS representatives stated that it is cheaper to build a new broadcasting facility 300 meters high than to equip an already built tower with the necessary systems (a 300-meter TV tower made of metal structures will be built on Uktus).
In July 2012, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev gave an order to transfer the tower to the ownership of the region.
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On April 4, 2013, D. Medvedev signed a decree according to which the unfinished TV tower is excluded from the list of federal strategic objects and transferred to the ownership of the Sverdlovsk region. A competition was announced for a project for the reconstruction of the tower and the adjacent territory with the creation of a recreational zone. The deadline for the competition, which was scheduled to end in July, was extended until the end of September 2013. By this time, the technical expertise of the submitted projects should have passed, including the "Global Lighthouse" (scientific and educational center), "Green Hill Park" (the tower is an object of a "bionic architectural form"), "Star of the Urals" (an object based on the movement of soaring rings using the principle of magnetic levitation) and others. Won the Green Hill Park project with a registry office, attractions, a cinema and an exhibition area. However, no investor was found for its implementation.
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Projects for the creation of an Orthodox church on the basis of the tower were also presented.
It is expected that the land plot surrounding the tower, facing directly to the Iset River, will be converted into a recreational area.
In February 2016, it was decided to mothball the TV tower ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. In September 2016, the TV tower was included in the privatization plan. In January 2017, the authorities once again announced their intention to sell the tower.
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The tower is said to have a slight lurch due to a design error that was not noticed during construction. However, it does not pose a threat of the tower falling and it will not fall in the near future.
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On December 10, 2016, the most famous long-term construction project in Yekaterinburg turned 30. The construction of the TV tower - the actual concrete pillar that towered over the Ural capital - began at the end of 1986, but never ended. At the same time, every year the cost of completing the tower, on which about 2 million has already been spent, increased.
E1.RU for the 30th anniversary of the TV tower has collected 10 interesting facts about this construction.
1. The TV tower was the tallest structure in Sverdlovsk-Yekaterinburg (before the appearance of Vysotsky) and the tallest abandoned building in the world.
2. The Sverdlovsk project was similar to the Vilnius TV tower, built in 1977. And the construction of the concrete pillar was carried out by the same organization that built the TV tower in Vilnius - "Spetszhelezobetonstroy". Above the 220 meter mark, where the concrete shaft ends, Uralstalkonstruktsiya was supposed to build, while it was also supposed to erect steel-concrete structures at the 200 meter mark.
3. According to the project, at a height of 188 meters, the TV tower was supposed to house a restaurant with a rotating floor, as in Ostankino. Now the height of the unfinished tower is 220 meters, so you can roughly estimate where the restaurant should have been. This part of the tower was to be assembled from 20 steel-concrete blocks weighing 32 tons each. They were even already mounted. Some of these blocks were lying at the foot of the tower until 2016.
4. The total height of the TV tower was supposed to be 361 meters. Of these, 141 meters are a metal antenna. In the finished version, with the antenna raised to a height of 370 meters, with two inflorescences of the upper and lower buildings, the tower would very much resemble a flower. They say that the designers called it that way - "Stone Flower".
5. To enter the tower, it was planned to build an underground tunnel - it would start from Dekabristov Street.
6. Concrete rings were poured on the spot. Concrete was brought from the precast concrete plant, lifted with a mine hoist and pre-welded reinforcement was poured. The height of the rings of the television tower was 2.5 meters. For the widest, lowest, rings of the TV tower 64 machines with concrete were needed. The concrete was lifted to the working platform in a cage. The proletarians transported him to the formwork in wheelbarrows. One ring took about 10 hours of work.
7. The construction of the TV tower was supposed to cost 11 million rubles. Of these, only 2 million were actually spent on construction.
8. In an unfinished state, the Yekaterinburg TV tower could stand for hundreds of years: it was built of high-quality concrete, and the fittings inside the rings should not have rusted, because air does not get there.
“The tower is rigidly built, the maximum deflection of the top is no more than 20 centimeters, it will not collapse - the concrete is getting stronger every year, the steel structures inside the tower have no air access,” said Vladimir Ignatov, chief project engineer. - When completed, the tower will stand for hundreds of years. But it is not designed for decades of annual freezing (there must be a constant temperature inside), all embedded metal parts must be properly processed. And they are not even mothballed. From year to year, the cost of completion increases. If now it can be piled from the parts prepared and located below, then in a couple of years they will have to be made again, the condition of the trunk itself deteriorates, the elevator trusses and embedded parts are rusting. If within the next few years the tower is not taken up, it will be impossible to restore it. And what will you have to do with it - blow it up? "
9. According to the project, this TV tower, called RTPS (radio and television broadcasting station), was supposed to increase the range of TV broadcasting by 2.5 times and cover the entire Sverdlovsk region with a TV and radio signal (the height of the currently operating TV tower on Lunacharsky, 212 is only 194 meters).
10. There were 88 layers in the concrete pillar that towered over the city. The last finish pancake was poured over a day and completed the barrel on August 17, 1989 - a year later than planned. According to the project, the construction of the concrete shaft was to be completed on October 1, 1988. Inside the tower there are metal scaffolding, some of them are equipped with stairs, the total number of steps is 1312. But the stairs are not installed throughout the tower: they were in the lower part of the tower, a little in the middle and a long staircase fragment at the finish. Extreme sportsmen managed to climb 220 meters in 30-40 minutes.
Today is exactly one year since the demolition of the unfinished TV tower in the city of Yekaterinburg. Although the city is accustomed to a landscape without a tower, the passion for the tower has not subsided. I wrote this article almost a year ago, but it is still relevant today. Today, more than ever, there is a reason for this, to remember our tower. And a year ago, and now I feel sorry for the tower.
Demolition of the TV tower
Of course, we also came on March 24, 2018. The weather was surprisingly clear in the morning - and the tower looked beautiful against the background of a bright blue sky. True, this beauty was dressed in a black mourning dress. Crowds of people walked towards the TV tower, there were many with children, and I kept thinking: "Why with children, this is dangerous!"
To be honest, I didn’t fully believe that the tower would be blown up. And when, after the first siren, which was exactly according to plan at 08:30, at 09:00 there was no second siren, and there was no one at 09:05, I almost exhaled - they canceled!
But the siren howled at 09:10. And unexpectedly - very light cotton and a small cloud of concrete dust over a black dress and the tower slowly and beautifully (damn it, they did blow it up !!!) began to settle and then fell on its side in a huge cloud of dust. Alia, immediately after the explosion, tears flowed down her cheeks and she began to cry loudly.
The hype in the network
Later, when I watched numerous videos on YouTube, I was especially shocked by one thing when the tower slowly subsides, and then easily lies in the death bed prepared for it, as if saying: "People, what have you done to me ..."
Of course, I, like many people these days, read the press, and Internet news, and comments. In this story, everyone lost: I have not seen such negativity and discord between people for a long time, and how far everything will go is not clear, I became very uneasy because of this reading. Everyone lost, except for the RVS company, which dismantled the tower - they worked professionally and beautifully, and viral videos made this company famous all over the world. No earthquakes, apocalypses, destroyed buildings, broken glass - nothing that the sponsored authors promised us. How many restless hours - and I'm not alone! - I spent because of these rubbish!
Event participants
Then 8 guys at night, having outwitted the guards, climbed the tower. 3 were base jumpers and parachuted down, while the five below were waiting for the guards. Ilsur was among the five.
Here is information from ETV: « Ilsur Khamzin- photographer and multiple conqueror of the Yekaterinburg TV tower. We talked about his connection with this cult object in one of our previous materials. This morning, together with seven friends, he again climbed to the very top to once again communicate with the tower and look at the changed city, perhaps for the last time. "
Ilsur: “I climbed the tower almost 500 times, although it was a long time ago - several years ago. But here is the whole story with the demolition. I wanted to visit it again, to photograph the city. We cooperated with the guys, went to her yesterday. We look - there are some guys with unusual backpacks walking, it turned out that the basers also want to climb the tower. We decided to climb together. We entered the territory at about four in the morning. I would not say that the security is weak or inattentive, but they are also people. "
Aliya called Ilsur and it turned out that he was very close to our office, he also went to say goodbye to the tower. While Ilsur was climbing up to us, his acquaintances called him and we and these guys were invited to drink coffee. Of course, we also had cognac, only our guests were not big drinkers. So in our office there were roofers and basers, and for three hours we warmly recalled our now former TV tower. Our warm company included two roofers who conquered the tower in February, one roofer, who was detained by the guards on March 23, 2018, and a baser who jumped from our tower twice: on February 11 and March 23.
To the first question that Aliya asked: “And what do you feel now?”, We received an unexpected answer from one of the roofers, Maxim: “Relief. She always pulled us to her. " One of the guys - because of the tower had real troubles in life, first because of his love for the tower he was kicked out of an elite music school in the 9th grade, and now, after 18 years - troubles at work due to being brought to the police on February 11 ...
But not all roofers, of course, the tower explosion caused "relief", for example Ilsur, who spent all his childhood on the tower, was very sorry about its demolition. He said that they could make a park at the bottom, and while the tower, with minimal funds, could be turned into an observation deck with a cafe above, for guests and residents of the city, this would be the best options for the time of searching for fixed assets for the implementation of a more global project. Still, the tower has long become a symbol Yekaterinburg and certainly with its verticality kept the entire architectural composition of the city center, according to Ilsur.
Meanwhile, Maxim continued his story: “At first I could not understand, I want to go up there for the last time, don’t I want to? Still, an adult man, 33 years old, married, children. But all my childhood and youth passed with the tower. Still, I really wanted to say goodbye to the tower, to look at the city from a height for the last time. I knew that the guys wanted to go up there on February 11 - at first I decided "I won't go!" And then I saw the stairs - it stood and seemed to invite me to the tower. And I ran. Already at the very beginning of the ascent, I realized that I was no longer 15 years old, it was hard to climb. Why did we start climbing the tower? Personally, I am because of Sheremet. I was then his most ardent fan, all these reports, badges, I not only him, I knew his car well, number B002, you see, I still remember, I even took autographs from his driver. "
In 1995, "TAU" with Sheremet organized an extreme parachute action "Beisovtsy" on the tower: four athletes jumped from the top of the tower on open parachutes, about which they later made a film - the first documentary evidence of the existence of base jumping in Yekaterinburg. “TAU” has been promoting this topic for a long time: for example, only in 1997, when “TAU” held 7 extreme actions on the TV tower. On June 12, 1997, climbers Mikhail Pershin and Ramil Belalov ascended the tower along the outer wall. They climbed to the top to the top in 4 days. We spent the night right on the wall, on a climbing platform. For carrying out base-actions "TAU" attracted the most experienced and the most advanced basemen of Russia, for example, Dmitry Kiselev, nicknamed "Kaplya". His first base-jump from the Kaplya TV tower took place on June 22, 1997. In total, he jumped from the tower 10 times - both alone and with students.
Maxim was tireless, as if charged with the energy of the explosion of the tower, and stories from his lips sounded one after another: “We had two parties there: the upper and the lower. The lower one was sitting at the foot of the tower, drinking beer, singing, talking. And the top did the same, only at the top. 
We loved to climb up the outside - there is a lot of iron, rust inside, you get dirty while you get there, but the outside is cleaner. I even went up there in a school suit. Once I got up before graduation, admired the city, was about to go down, and a man climbs to meet me. An adult already, in a good business suit, and the expression on his face is completely insane. When, after graduation, I came to the tower again, it was already cordoned off, by the police, the ambulance. Only the ambulance was not needed there at all. For some reason this man jumped into the tower. And in the same place, iron is everywhere. Only the torso flew to the bottom. And arms, and legs, and head - everything was torn off. He left his jacket with a passport at the top, I took it off to the police. Then I was "on figs", but now it's scary. Of course, our parents were very worried about us. I will not envy my mother. I was like that, with a mohawk, and I also loved to climb the tower, play the flute. One friend's mother always smelled his hands - they smelled of iron and rust, so we came up with - in front of the house, wipe his hands on the wall and only then: "Hello, mother!"
It so happens that you meet a person for the first time and immediately feel like kindred spirits. Ilsur Khamzin, family man and photographer has been to the tower 491 times. In 2000 - he climbed the tower every day. As he said: "In the difficult 90s, you climb the tower and find yourself in another dimension."
Who are Roofers and Base Jumpers?
A couple of months ago, I didn't even know a word like that - roofers... The word itself originated from the English "roof", which translates as "roof". Roofers are those who are engaged in roofing - extreme tourism, the essence of which is walking on the roofs of high-rise buildings.
Base jumping- the phenomenon is better known, this year it turns 40 years old. Base jumping - jumping from high-altitude objects of artificial or natural origin using a special parachute.
Base jumpers- people doing this kind of extreme jumps. And we even have world champions in this sport in Yekaterinburg! While this type of jumping is not recognized as a sport, we know that life goes on. I hope that in the near future he will publish a long article about the Ural base jumpers.
March 23 events
And already on the eve of the demolition, on March 23, opponents of the demolition of the TV tower made their way through the guards, climbed to the very top and raised a huge tricolor there - the flag of Russia. The ruffers demanded that a referendum be held among local residents on the need to demolish the tower. We know how it all ended.
On March 23, one base jumper jumped from the tower - Electrician... With this jump, the Ural base jumpers said goodbye to the Yekaterinburg TV tower. “Ours are conducting some kind of wrong policy: abroad, a big show of this would be staged with a holiday and jumps, and ours stupidly closed everything and sent security guards,- says beiser Electrician - Large companies like Red Bull spend a lot of money, and we would have jumped for free, just allow it. "
At the end of the conversation, Ilsur made the following conclusion: “When I heard in June 2017 that the TV tower would be blown up, I decided to get up and say goodbye to it. Although I have not been to the TV tower for a long time, about 10 years. The tower had a strange fate - it was built to serve people, but it did not serve people like a TV tower for a single day. 
But at the same time, she served us all as a place where destinies meet, simple human relationships are struck. She was our kind of beacon. It just so happened that the tower was only ours. So it will remain ours forever. "
These are the guests we had! These are roofers and basers. I hope that in the near future we will publish a large article about the Ural base jumpers and about the Ural roofers. This is a global trend. We are waiting for material from the guys. And the video. And photo.
The Yekaterinburg TV Tower is an unfinished telecommunications tower in the Sverdlovsk Region, the city of Yekaterinburg.
Its construction began in 1983, when the regional government decided to transfer all television and radio communications to this place. According to the project, it was planned that the height of the tower would be 361 meters. Also in the plans was the creation of a high-rise restaurant, such as the Seventh Heaven in the Ostankino TV tower.
The construction was undertaken by the Spetszhelezobetonstroy company, which already had experience in the construction of the Vilnius and Ostankino TV towers. Construction continued until 1991, after which funding problems began and the project was frozen.
A total of 11 million rubles were allocated for the construction, but only 2 of them were spent.
Today, the tower is 220 meters high, and it is the highest point in Yekaterinburg. Options for its restoration are being considered, but so far only in plans.
The tower has become a popular place for extreme climbers, climbers and suicides; according to some reports, more than 20 people have already committed suicide on this tower.
Coordinates: 56.82453100,60.60864200
White Tower
In Yekaterinburg, in the Ordzhonikidze area, there is an architectural monument that belongs to the era of constructivism. This is a former water tower, built in 1928-1931 and abandoned in our time.
The need for the tower arose when the construction of the Ural plant began in the north of Sverdlovsk. M.V. Reischer became the architect of the structure. According to his plan, the structure had two observation platforms at the very top. Two geometric bodies - the prismatic plate of the tank cylinder and the stairs had to intersect. The tower reached 29 meters in height, its tank was completely iron. In 1931, the tower was ready, but an hour after it was filled with water, the bottom bowed out, fell off, and all the water poured onto the street.
The bottom was altered by Prokhorov, and this time it turned out to be reliable and made of reinforced concrete. The tower was painted with white lime and the people called it the "White Tower". Now she is the unofficial symbol of Uralmash and the prototype for many other similar structures. In 2006, Red Cross activists planned to revive the monument, which has already entered the list of cultural heritage sites. They wanted to create a security zone around the structure.
Today, only heaps of rubbish can be seen inside the tower; in 2012, the Red Cross gave up custody of the monument and now this is being done by a public organization called the Group of Architectural Initiatives.
Coordinates: 56.89319400,60.57247200
Exactly one year has passed since the unfinished TV tower - the legendary long-term construction and at the same time one of the symbols of Yekaterinburg - was blown up in front of tens of thousands of townspeople. IT is no longer in the city of Yekaterinburg.
TV tower project: the second after Ostankino
Conceived in the early 1980s to cover the entire territory of the Sverdlovsk region... It was also planned to create a restaurant on a tower on a rotating platform (at a height of 188 meters). The projected height of the structure was 361 meters. If it had been completed, it would have become the tallest in Asia and the second after Ostankino tower v Of Russia.
It was supposed to consist of a concrete tower 220 meters high (very little remained until its completion), above which a 141-meter metal antenna would rise.
Construction
The construction was entrusted to professionals - the trust that erected the tower "Spetszhelezobetonstroy" previously erected Ostankino TV tower and a number of others.
Construction of the tower began at the end of 1983. The builders used 400 grade heavy-duty concrete.
The concrete rings that make up the tower were poured on the spot. The working platform climbed up a metal mine lift inside the tower. The concrete was brought from the precast concrete plant, lifted up and poured in the reinforcement welded in advance for the fortress. It took about 10 hours to fill one ring. The largest lower rings required 64 concrete trucks. The height of one concrete ring was 2.5 meters.
In 1989, the first money problems arose. Stretching out for another two years, in 1991 the construction was finally frozen. By that time, only two million rubles out of the eleven planned at the prices of that time had been spent. Moreover, all the money for the construction has already been transferred, but they spent it in connection with the outbreak of the crisis for other purposes. By that time, the tower had already reached the level of 213 meters, at which it stopped. Unfortunately, the tower was not even mothballed, and soon it began to gradually collapse.
Tower before demolition
Despite the fact that the tower did not reach its projected height, it was the tallest structure in the territory Yekaterinburg... For example, the height of the largest skyscraper Yekaterinburg- third stage Anthea- 188.3 meters. Only tower "Iset"... According to the project, its total height should be 215 meters (2 meters higher than the TV tower).
Previously, the entrance to the tower was free. Extremists risked their lives to climb it along internal structures and external stairs. Parachutists have jumped from the upper platform more than once. When climbing upstairs, lovers of heights often fell out. There are at least three known fatalities. Unofficial sources even report more than two dozen human victims of the TV tower.
Demolition of the TV tower
From time to time, there were reports of the planned reconstruction of the TV tower. But it never came to real deeds.
In the summer of 2017, the Sverdlovsk Legislative Assembly approved the transfer of the land plot under the unfinished tower for the use of the UMMC for the construction of a new ice arena. At the same time, it was assumed that the tower could be preserved and included in the design of the ice arena. But later the governor of the Sverdlovsk region Evgeny Kuyvashev supported the decision to demolish the unfinished object, despite.
From the very morning of March 24, 2018, crowds of people walked in the direction of the TV tower, everyone was looking for the best vantage points, and soon the entire city center was packed with people. The sky was blue and blue and a tower in a black stocking said goodbye to the city and the townspeople.
March 24, 2018 at 9:00 am local time was produced. The charges were activated at intervals of several seconds. The tower partly collapsed inward, partly lay on the erected earth damper pad exactly along the trajectory. The collapse of the lower part, contrary to the plans, did not occur and the base with a height of 36-56 meters remained of the tower. On April 1, the demolition of the remaining part was carried out with the help of mechanized equipment; the night before, explosions were made, covered with fireworks, to weaken the structure.
New TV tower?
By the end of 2020 in Yekaterinburg it was decided to build a new TV tower with a height of 236 meters, but this time a metal one. It will be located on the northern outskirts of the city (Kosmonavtov Avenue 99) on the territory of an inactive radio center. The customer was the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network, which previously owned the demolished tower.
The project was approved by Glavgosexpertiza in January 2018. Thus, the new tower will be even lower than the unfinished one and will not differ much from the metal TV towers in other cities of the country.
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