# 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.
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.
| Tower | Year | Country | Town | Height m | Height ft | design type | demolition |
| Edineţ TV Tower | ? | Moldova | Edineţ | 204 m | 669 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Rezeknes TV Tower | ? | Latvia | Rezeknes | 204 m | 669 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Klaipeda Radio and Television Station | 1960 | Lithuania | Klaipeda | 202 m | 663 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Odessa TV Tower | 1958 | Ukraine | Odessa | 199 m | 653 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design single platform | |
| Novosibirsk TV Tower | 1957 | Russia | Novosibirsk | 198 m | 650 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Voronezh TV tower | 1958 | Russia | Voronezh | 198 m | 650 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Krasnodar TV Tower | 1959 | Russia | Krasnodar | 197 m | 646 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Old Yerevan TV Tower | 1956 | Armenia | Yerevan | 196 m | 643 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | demolition date unknown |
| Chelyabinsk TV tower | 1958 | Russia | Chelyabinsk | 196 m | 643 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Penza Television Centre Transmitter | 1958 | Russia | Penza | 196 m | 643 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Rostov TV Tower | 1958 | Russia | Rostov | 196 m | 643 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design single platform | |
| Omsk TV tower | 1959 | Kazakhstan | Omsk | 196 m | 643 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Pärnu TV Tower | 1963 | Estonia | Pärnu | 196 m | 643 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Bryansk TV Tower | 1958 | Russia | Bryansk | 194 m | 637 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Dnipropetrovsk TV Tower | 1958 | Ukraine | Dnipropetrovsk | 194 m | 637 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design single platform | |
| Luhansk TV Tower | 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 | |
| Karaganda TV Tower | 19 | Kazakhstan | Qaragandy | 194 m | 635 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Mykolaiv TV Tower | 1958 | Ukraine | Mykolaiv | 193 m | 633 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design single platform | |
| Bishkek TV Tower | 1958 | Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | 193 m | 633 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Ulaanbaatar Radio Station Tower | 1967 | Mongolia | Ulaanbaatar | 193 m | 633 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Yekaterinburg TV Tower (Old) | 1955 | Russia | Yekaterinburg | 192 m | 630 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Tallinn TV Mast | 1955 | Estonia | Tallinn | 192 m | 630 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | dismantled in 1984 |
| Baku Communication Tower | 1956 | Azerbaijan | Baku | 192 m | 630 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | demolished in 2008 |
| Irkutsk TV Tower | 1957 | Russia | Irkutsk | 192 m | 630 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Murmansk TV Tower | 1957 | Russia | Murmansk | 192 m | 630 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Lviv TV Tower | 1957 | Ukraine | Lviv | 192 m | 630 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design single platform | |
| Simferopol TV Tower | 1958 | Ukraine | Simferopol | 192 m | 630 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design single platform | |
| Ulyanovsk TV tower | 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 single platform | |
| Lipetsk TV tower | 1960 | Russia | Lipetsk | 192 m | 630 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Annunciation TV tower | 1964 | Russia | Blagoveshchensk | 192 m | 630 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Abakan TV Tower | 1965 | Russia | Abakan | 192 m | 630 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Almaty Old TV tower | ? | Kazakhstan | Almaty | 192 m | 630 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Pavlodar TV tower | ? | Kazakhstan | Pavlodar | 192 m | 630 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Tomsk TV tower | ? | Russia | Tomsk | 192 m | 630 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Orissaare TV Tower | 1965 | Estonia | Orissaare | 191 m | 627 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Bratsk TV tower | 1963 | Russia | Bratsk | 190 m | 623 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Soinaste Telemast | 1957 | Estonia | Tartu | 186 m | 610 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Chisinau TV Tower | 1958 | Moldova | Chisinau | 186 m | 610 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Petrozavodsk TV Tower | 1959 | Russia | Petrozavodsk | 186 m | 610 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Semipalatinsk TV Tower | ? | Kazakhstan | Semey | 185 m | 608 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Ekibastuz TV Tower | 1967 | Kazakhstan | Ekibastuz | 185 m | 607 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| TV tower RTPTS Berezniki | 1961 | Russia | Berezniki | 183 m | 600 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Ryazan TV tower | 1956 | Russia | Ryazan | 182.5 m | 599 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Nizhny Novgorod TV tower | 1957 | Russia | Nizhny Novgorod | 182 m | 597 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Old Ufa TV Tower | 1958 | Russia | Ufa | 182 m | 597 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Kazan TV tower | 1959 | Russia | Kazan | 182 m | 597 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Tower on Mamayev Kurgan | 1956 | Russia | Volgograd | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Vladimirskaya TV tower | 1956 | Russia | Vladimirskaya | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Old Krasnoyarsk TV tower | 1957 | Russia | Krasnoyarsk | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Samara TV Tower | 1957 | Russia | Samara | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Kemerovo TV tower | 1958 | Russia | Kemerovo | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Sochi TV tower | 1958 | Russia | Sochi | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| KRTPTS Eagle's Nest | 1959 | Russia | Vladivostok | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Arzamas TV tower | 1960 | Russia | Arzamas | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Tambov TV tower | 1960 | Russia | Tambov | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Yoshkar-Ola TV tower | 1960 | Russia | Yoshkar-Ola | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Astrakhan TV tower | 1961 | Russia | Astrakhan | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Cheboksary TV tower | 1961 | Russia | Cheboksary | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Kurgan TV tower | 1961 | Russia | Kurgan | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Leninsk-Kuznetsky TV tower | 1962 | Russia | Leninsk-Kuznetsky | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Magnitogorsk TV tower | 1962 | Russia | Magnitogorsk | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Novokuznetsk TV tower | 1962 | Russia | Novokuznetsk | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Tula TV Tower | 1963 | Russia | Tula | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Khabarovsk TV tower | 1964 | Russia | Khabarovsk | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Syktyvkar TV Tower | 1964 | Russia | Syktyvkar | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Donetsk TV Tower 2 | 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 | |
| Nalchik TV Tower | 1967 | Russia | Nalchik | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Kotovsk Communication Tower | 1972 | Ukraine | Vesternychany | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Mezhdurechenskaya TV tower | 1972 | Russia | Mezhdurechensk | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Kuldiga TV Tower | ? | Latvia | Kuldiga | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Aktobe TV Tower | ? | Kazakhstan | Aktobe | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Ust-Kamenogorsk TV Tower | ? | Kazakhstan | Oskemen | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Petropavlovsk TV Tower | ? | Kazakhstan | Oskemen | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Makhachkala TV tower | ? | Russia | Makhachkala | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Tobolsk TV Tower | ? | Russia | Tobolsk | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Tyumen TV Tower | ? | Russia | Tyumen | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Tashkent Old TV Tower | ? | Uzbekistan | Tashkent | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Gyumri TV Tower | ? | Armenia | Gyumri | 180 m | 591 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design | |
| Smolensk TV Tower | 1957 | Russia | Smolensk | 180 m | 590 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design, no mid-level platforms | |
| Ural TV tower | ? | Kazakhstan | Uralsk | 160 m | 524 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design, shortened | |
| Old Ust-Kamenogorsk TV tower | ? | Kazakhstan | Oskemen | 151 m | 494 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design, shortened | |
| Vorkuta TV tower | 1958 | Russia | Vorkuta | 150 m | 492 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design, shortened | |
| Novgorod TV tower | 1958 | Russia | Novgorod | 150 m | 492 ft | 4-sided, 3803 KM design, shortened | |