Kherson TV Tower
Kherson TV Tower ( "Kherson TV Tower") is a tall steel space framed truss communications tower located in the Ukrainian city of Kherson. The building is uniquely built, having been built by using the cross bracing system. The tower is a truss TV tower, specifically, a Vierendeel truss tower, wherein a structure's members are not triangulated but form rectangular openings instead (see Vierendeel Truss). The tower has an antenna that measures and a roof that measures . The tower, possessing a total height of , is also considered the tallest structure in the whole oblast (province) of Kherson'ka. History . Although the exact date of the commencing of the tower's construction is unknown, construction of the Kherson TV Tower was begun in 1991 and finished after 14 years, to be exact, in 2005, in the city of Kherson, in Ukraine. Geography. The Kherson TV Tower is situated in the city of Kherson, which in turn, is located in the oblast (province) of Kherson, in Ukraine, thus the name. Kherson. Kherson (; ) is a city in southern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kherson Oblast (province), and is designated as its own separate raion (district) within the oblast. Kherson  is an important port on the Black Sea and Dnieper River, and the home of a major ship-building industry. The estimated population was 329,000 in 2007. Kherson Oblast. Kherson Oblast (, translit. "Khersons’ka oblast’"; also referred to as Khersonshchyna – "") is an oblast (province) in southern Ukraine, just north of Crimea. Its administrative center is Kherson. The area of the region is 29000 km², its population (as of 1 May 2004) is 1.12 million.