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Obninsk Meteorological tower

Russia

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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Obninsk Meteorological Tower is a 310 meter tall silver-grey guyed steel tube mast at Obninsk, Russia. Obninsk Meteorological Tower was built in 1958 and is equipped with multiple platforms on different heights, on which devices for measuring radioactivity and for meteorological science are installed. Obninsk Meteorological Tower is the official landmark of the Russian science town Obninsk.

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Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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