3803 KM

3803 KM is the designation of a free-standing lattice tower used for broadcasting purposes, which was built in over 80 towns of former Soviet Union from 1955 to 1972 and used for FM- and TV-broadcasting. Towers of this type, which was developed by the Soviet Institute for Steel Construction, are 4-side freestanding truss towers which make use of tubular steel columns for their main supports beams and can be differentiated from more recent towers of a similar profile by this unique feature. Most newer Russian designs along with their North American and European counterparts typical make use of L or T-beams instead. Another distinct feature of these towers is that they gradually taper wider towards the base at the same preset intervals. They are also nearly universally identical in height, with a few exceptions these towers are 180 meters tall to the top of the steel framework. Most of which are topped with broadcast antennas that adds some additional height and they have platforms at the 140 and 148 metres level for more antennas. Some 3803 KM only have a signal upper platform, but are otherwise identical in design.

3803 KM type tower in Sochi

Most of these towers are still in use today more than half a century after construction and are often the characteristic landmarks and tallest structure in the towns they reside in.

List of 3803 KM radio towers

  indicates a structure that is no longer standing.

3803 KM type tower in Penza

See also: Radio masts and towers

See also: Lattice tower

Tower	Year	Country	Town	Height m	Height ft	design type	demolition
Edineţ TV Tower[1]	?	Moldova	Edineţ	204 m	669 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Rezeknes TV Tower[2]	?	Latvia	Rezeknes	204 m	669 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Klaipeda Radio and Television Station[3]	1960	Lithuania	Klaipeda	202 m	663 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Odessa TV Tower[4]	1958	Ukraine	Odessa	199 m	653 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design single platform
Novosibirsk TV Tower[5]	1957	Russia	Novosibirsk	198 m	650 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Voronezh TV tower[6]	1958	Russia	Voronezh	198 m	650 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Krasnodar TV Tower[7]	1959	Russia	Krasnodar	197 m	646 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Old Yerevan TV Tower[8]	1956	Armenia	Yerevan	196 m	643 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design	demolition date unknown
Chelyabinsk TV tower[9]	1958	Russia	Chelyabinsk	196 m	643 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Penza Television Centre Transmitter[10]	1958	Russia	Penza	196 m	643 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Rostov TV Tower[11]	1958	Russia	Rostov	196 m	643 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design single platform[12]
Omsk TV tower[13]	1959	Kazakhstan	Omsk	196 m	643 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Pärnu TV Tower[14]	1963	Estonia	Pärnu	196 m	643 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Bryansk TV Tower[15]	1958	Russia	Bryansk	194 m	637 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Dnipropetrovsk TV Tower[16]	1958	Ukraine	Dnipropetrovsk	194 m	637 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design single platform
Luhansk TV Tower[17]	1958	Ukraine	Luhansk	194 m	637 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design single platform
Kamenske TV Tower	1965	Ukraine	Kamenske	194 m	637 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design[18]
Karaganda TV Tower[19]	19	Kazakhstan	Qaragandy	194 m	635 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Mykolaiv TV Tower[20]	1958	Ukraine	Mykolaiv	193 m	633 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design single platform
Bishkek TV Tower[21]	1958	Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	193 m	633 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Ulaanbaatar Radio Station Tower[22]	1967	Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	193 m	633 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Yekaterinburg TV Tower (Old)[23]	1955	Russia	Yekaterinburg	192 m	630 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Tallinn TV Mast[24]	1955	Estonia	Tallinn	192 m	630 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design	dismantled in 1984
Baku Communication Tower[25]	1956	Azerbaijan	Baku	192 m	630 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design	demolished in 2008
Irkutsk TV Tower[26]	1957	Russia	Irkutsk	192 m	630 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Murmansk TV Tower[27]	1957	Russia	Murmansk	192 m	630 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Lviv TV Tower[28]	1957	Ukraine	Lviv	192 m	630 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design single platform
Simferopol TV Tower[29]	1958	Ukraine	Simferopol	192 m	630 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design single platform
Ulyanovsk TV tower[30]	1959	Russia	Ulyanovsk	192 m	630 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Zaporizhzhya TV Tower	1959	Ukraine	Zaporizhzhya	192 m	630 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design[31] single platform
Lipetsk TV tower[32]	1960	Russia	Lipetsk	192 m	630 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Annunciation TV tower[33]	1964	Russia	Blagoveshchensk	192 m	630 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Abakan TV Tower[34]	1965	Russia	Abakan	192 m	630 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Almaty Old TV tower[35]	?	Kazakhstan	Almaty	192 m	630 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Pavlodar TV tower[36]	?	Kazakhstan	Pavlodar	192 m	630 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Tomsk TV tower[37]	?	Russia	Tomsk	192 m	630 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Orissaare TV Tower[38]	1965	Estonia	Orissaare	191 m	627 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Bratsk TV tower[39]	1963	Russia	Bratsk	190 m	623 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Soinaste Telemast[40]	1957	Estonia	Tartu	186 m	610 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Chisinau TV Tower[41]	1958	Moldova	Chisinau	186 m	610 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Petrozavodsk TV Tower[42]	1959	Russia	Petrozavodsk	186 m	610 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Semipalatinsk TV Tower[43]	?	Kazakhstan	Semey	185 m	608 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Ekibastuz TV Tower[44]	1967	Kazakhstan	Ekibastuz	185 m	607 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
TV tower RTPTS Berezniki[45]	1961	Russia	Berezniki	183 m	600 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Ryazan TV tower[46]	1956	Russia	Ryazan	182.5 m	599 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Nizhny Novgorod TV tower[47]	1957	Russia	Nizhny Novgorod	182 m	597 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Old Ufa TV Tower[48]	1958	Russia	Ufa	182 m	597 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Kazan TV tower[49]	1959	Russia	Kazan	182 m	597 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Tower on Mamayev Kurgan[50]	1956	Russia	Volgograd	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Vladimirskaya TV tower[51]	1956	Russia	Vladimirskaya	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Old Krasnoyarsk TV tower[52]	1957	Russia	Krasnoyarsk	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Samara TV Tower[53]	1957	Russia	Samara	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Kemerovo TV tower[54]	1958	Russia	Kemerovo	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Sochi TV tower[55]	1958	Russia	Sochi	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
KRTPTS Eagle's Nest[56]	1959	Russia	Vladivostok	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Arzamas TV tower[57]	1960	Russia	Arzamas	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Tambov TV tower[58]	1960	Russia	Tambov	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Yoshkar-Ola TV tower[59]	1960	Russia	Yoshkar-Ola	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Astrakhan TV tower[60]	1961	Russia	Astrakhan	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Cheboksary TV tower[61]	1961	Russia	Cheboksary	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Kurgan TV tower[62]	1961	Russia	Kurgan	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Leninsk-Kuznetsky TV tower[63]	1962	Russia	Leninsk-Kuznetsky	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Magnitogorsk TV tower[64]	1962	Russia	Magnitogorsk	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Novokuznetsk TV tower[65]	1962	Russia	Novokuznetsk	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Tula TV Tower[66][67]	1963	Russia	Tula	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Khabarovsk TV tower[68]	1964	Russia	Khabarovsk	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Syktyvkar TV Tower[69]	1964	Russia	Syktyvkar	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Donetsk TV Tower 2[70]	1964	Ukraine	Donetsk	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Yarok TV and Radio Tower	1964	Ukraine	Yarok	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design[71]
Nalchik TV Tower[72]	1967	Russia	Nalchik	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Kotovsk Communication Tower[73]	1972	Ukraine	Vesternychany	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Mezhdurechenskaya TV tower[74]	1972	Russia	Mezhdurechensk	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Kuldiga TV Tower[75]	?	Latvia	Kuldiga	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Aktobe TV Tower[76]	?	Kazakhstan	Aktobe	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Ust-Kamenogorsk TV Tower[77]	?	Kazakhstan	Oskemen	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Petropavlovsk TV Tower[78]	?	Kazakhstan	Oskemen	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Makhachkala TV tower[79]	?	Russia	Makhachkala	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design[80]
Tobolsk TV Tower[81]	?	Russia	Tobolsk	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Tyumen TV Tower[82]	?	Russia	Tyumen	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Tashkent Old TV Tower[83]	?	Uzbekistan	Tashkent	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Gyumri TV Tower[84]	?	Armenia	Gyumri	180 m	591 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design
Smolensk TV Tower[85]	1957	Russia	Smolensk	180 m	590 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design, no mid-level platforms
Ural TV tower[86]	?	Kazakhstan	Uralsk	160 m	524 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design, shortened
Old Ust-Kamenogorsk TV tower[77]	?	Kazakhstan	Oskemen	151 m	494 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design, shortened
Vorkuta TV tower[87]	1958	Russia	Vorkuta	150 m	492 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design, shortened
Novgorod TV tower[88]	1958	Russia	Novgorod	150 m	492 ft	4-sided, 3803 KM design, shortened