Ostankino television tower is a remarkable creation of construction
equipment of the 20th century. Ostankino TV-tower, the height of which
in the moment of completion of its construction amounted 533,3 m, built
in Moscow by the project of engineer-designer Nikolai Vasilievich
Nikitina.The weight of its base - 55,000 tons tolerance of the vertices
of wind 11, 65m. Today the tower is 540 meters (1999) , which is about
300 m above the building of the Moscow University on Lenin hills and 215
meters above the famous Eiffel tower in Paris. Despite this height to
tip over concrete tower cannot. Its centre of gravity do not go out and
never goes beyond the area of support.This area is bounded by the
ring-the Foundation's diameter is 60 meters. And the center of gravity
is located at an altitude of 110 meters along the axis of the tower.
Inside the circumference of the Ostankino television tower from top to
bottom, as strings, tensioned wire ropes. Each of the 150 ropes
stretched with the power of 70 tons. In General, the body of the
Ostankino tower is compressed with the strength of ten and a half
thousand tons.