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Tashkent TV Tower

Wednesday, 28th September 2005 by Alex

This is the super-cool looking Tashkent TV Tower in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Standing at 375 metres, it’s slightly smaller than yesterday’s Central TV Tower, but it’s the tallest structure in central Asia (whatever that means). The tower uses a vertical cantilever structure which makes it look like some sort of gargantuan tripod, and also casts a brilliant shadow.

Note: The thumbnail here is rotated 180 degrees from the original, simply because it looked way cooler the right way up!

Tashkent Tower

Just like the Central TV Tower, the Tashkent Tower has an observation deck (slightly higher at 318 metres) which allows it too, to be a member of the World Federation of Great Towers.

Thanks to Mikhail Kushnir, Pasha M. and Tim, we now have an Uzbekistan category!

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7 Responses to 'Tashkent TV Tower'

  1. 1. Smarmy_Pedant says: September 29th, 2005 at 2:43 am

    “abservation”?

  2. 2. Tim says: September 29th, 2005 at 3:22 am

    Whoops.

    I think “Central Aisa” means all the”stan”s- Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, etc.

  3. 3. Alex says: September 29th, 2005 at 9:19 am

    Oops, thanks Smarmy Pedant, I’ve fixed it now :-)

  4. 4. stuartd says: September 30th, 2005 at 12:57 am

    uzbekistan is my alltime favourite former soviet soclalist republic!

  5. 5. Tim says: September 30th, 2005 at 2:32 am

    Right on! I wanna run to Samarkand. Sounds like such a cool place.

  6. 6. Kostya says: October 5th, 2005 at 4:51 pm

    Hey, I am from Uzbekistan! Was very surprised to see Tashkent TV Tower here! It is really beautiful, even from the ground!

  7. 7. Mikhail Siversky says: November 19th, 2007 at 1:10 pm

    I come from Tashkent, acting here as a translator for a travel agency. ‘Central Asia’ is much bigger than post-Soviet Asian republics accroding to Western geographers. In Russian they call the republics ‘Middle Asia’ to translate it literally. Since ‘Middle Asia’ is not (yet?) in the English language, I suggest that it should be ‘the ex-Soviet Asia’ or similar in meaning. Thanks for ‘observation deck’. I couldn’t find this word combination in English-Russian dictionaries.

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