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On November 5, 1967, the Ostankino TV Tower was put into operation and began broadcasting television and radio programs. At that time, the radius of reliable signal reception was 120 kilometers, but soon the Orbita satellite system was launched, covering the entire territory of the Soviet Union, including remote northern regions, the Far East and Central Asia. Citizens can admire the panoramas of the capital from the observation deck, which is located at an altitude of 337 meters.
On the banks of the Ostankino pond in 2013, a monument was erected to Vladimir Zworykin, an engineer who transmitted images from a distance. In 1923, Zworykin filed a patent application for television operating on the electronic principle. Ten years later, he presented his invention to the scientific community, consisting of a high-vacuum television receiving tube - a kinescope - and a transmitting tube - an iconoscope. In the 1940s, Zworykin broke the light beam into blue, red and green colors and received color television. A monument to the inventor could hardly have appeared in Ostankino in Soviet times: Vladimir Zworykin was born in Russia, but emigrated to the United States during the Civil War, and with rare exceptions, emigrants in the USSR were treated without much respect.
The Soviet Union signed an agreement with the American company RCA and in 1938 the first television transmitting station appeared on Shabolovka, and the production of licensed TK-1 TVs with a Zvorykin kinescope was mastered in Leningrad. A television transmitter with antennas mounted on the Shukhov Tower ensured reliable signal reception at a distance of up to 60 kilometers. In 1957, a second metal tower 110 meters high was erected, another transmitter was installed, but it was obvious to the experts that the technological capabilities of Shabolovka had been exhausted. In 1963-1967, on the site of the Ostankino barracks and wastelands, the Television Technical Center named after the 50th anniversary of October was built (architects L. Batalov, V. Zharov, A. Zakarian, L. Solovyov, K. Shekhoyan, engineer A. Levinshtein).
Construction of a television center. 1966: https://pastvu.com/p/30600 According to an urban legend, a bulldozer was forgotten and walled up in the vast underground bowels of the complex.
The construction of the television center, view from the tower. 1966: https://pastvu.com/p/249148
The original view of the facade of the building and a modern one, stylized as a test table.
The hardware and studio complex ASK-3 was put into operation for the 1980 Olympic Games.
Parking near the TV center. 1987: https://pastvu.com/p/62405 Instead of asphalt - concrete slabs, which paved a significant part of Academician Korolev Street. Probably, the slabs were laid in connection with the construction of a TV tower for the operation of heavy construction equipment. The street was asphalted for the Olympic Games.
The project of the Ostankino television tower was invented by its chief designer Nikolai Nikitin overnight, the image of the tower was an inverted lily - a flower with strong petals and a thick stem. The Soviet architect and specialist in the field of building structures Nikitin participated in the design of the main building of Moscow State University on the Lenin Hills, the Central Stadium named after V.I. . With his participation, the monument “The Motherland Calls!” Was erected in Volgograd, and in Novosibirsk several buildings were built according to original designs back in the 1930s. In 1937, Nikolai Nikitin was invited to the design workshop for the design of the Palace of Soviets and made a number of improvements to the design of the foundations and frame.
On September 27, 1960, the first reinforced concrete blocks were laid at the base of the TV tower. The idea to use prestressed concrete compressed by steel cables made the tower structure simple and strong. Another progressive idea was the use of a relatively shallow foundation (the depth of the sole was about 4 meters), according to Nikitin's plan, the tower should have practically stood on the ground and its stability was ensured by repeatedly exceeding the mass of the cone-shaped base over the mass of the mast structure. In 1961, work on the construction site was suspended in order to double-check the calculations, the final project was approved on March 22, 1963.
The erection of the supporting structures of the tower. 1964: https://pastvu.com/p/282592
Inspection of weather instruments. 1968-1974: https://pastvu.com/p/73353
Outbuildings
In October 2014, show performances of the annual Circle of Light festival took place at the Ostankinsky Pond. A media façade was installed for this spectacular event, allowing the display of giant images around the perimeter of the tower.
At a height of 337 meters, a glazed observation deck is equipped, which has been visited by 10 million people over the years of the tower's existence. In the warm season, tourists can also visit the open area; for safety, it is completely fenced with bars. Just below the observation deck there is a high-rise restaurant "Seventh Heaven" with three halls - gold, silver and bronze.
Restaurant "Seventh Heaven". 1975: https://pastvu.com/p/54362
The ring-shaped premises of the restaurant made circular rotations around their axis at a speed of one to two revolutions in 40 minutes. After the fire that occurred on August 27, 2000, construction and repair work was carried out on the tower and excursions to the observation deck resumed only in 2008. Restaurant "Seventh Heaven" is not yet ready to receive visitors.
In 1982, an excursion building with a concert hall for 800 seats was built. The building also houses the directorate of the Moscow Regional Center of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network.
In modern history, the main skyscraper of the country has become a venue for various events - Father Frost is met here, competitions and photo exhibitions are held, veterans are honored and newlyweds are congratulated.
In 2013, retro cars wintered at the foot of the tower.
And this is an inflatable mascot of one of the cafes near the TV tower. The long-lived pig settled here back in the 1990s and became a kind of attraction, successfully surviving several hurricanes.
There was also a tragic episode in the history of Ostankino, on October 3, 1993, armed clashes took place on Academician Korolev Street, caused by a crisis of power in the country. The shooting began in the evening and lasted all night, then 49 people died near the walls of the television center. After the events of Black October, to ensure the safety of the facilities, the building of the television center and the surroundings of the TV tower were surrounded by a metal fence, a checkpoint booth was installed, and barbed wire appeared in sensitive areas.
Moscow from a height of 337 meters is best observed in summer in clear weather, in winter it is not uncommon for low clouds to envelop the observation deck in a white veil, and the city looks gloomy and inhospitable. In the next episode of the City for Memory project, we will see panoramas of the capital taken on a summer day, and here are some winter photographs of the immediate surroundings of Ostankino - VDNKh, Prospekt Mira, and the industrial zone.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Today marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of the man who changed the world. Vladimir Zworykin is a technical genius. He has more than a hundred patents for inventions: from medical devices to night vision devices. At the same time, he went down in history as a scientist who launched the era of television. Today in Moscow, near the television center and the Ostankino tower, a monument to Vladimir Zworykin was unveiled.
A huge blue screen TV is a symbol of the dawn of television, as if the heart opens its creator - the outstanding Russian engineer Vladimir Zworykin. Poured out of bronze, he stands leaning on the main creation of his life - a granite TV, in which the whole world is visible instead of a screen.
"For creative people, such as Zworykin was, of course, the most important thing is not bronze, not granite, but how his projects, how his ideas are implemented in life," said Acting Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
Those who have been implementing Zworykin's main idea for decades - to transmit and see life from a distance, the stars and simply beloved presenters of our television gathered on the banks of the Ostankino pond, near the monument, which was erected at the suggestion of Channel One. They came, in fact, to visit Vladimir Zworykin. It is so important for all of them that everyone in our country now knows his name.
"Although Zvorykin is not with us, the interactivity that he also predicted exists! You can hug Zvorykin, take a picture with him, you can stick your face into his TV screen! And if you sit down, then the Ostankino Tower hits him - one of the main symbols of television in our country," said Konstantin Ernst, general director of Channel One.
On the footage of the chronicle - the father of television Vladimir Zworykin, his brilliant invention - the electronic eye "iconoscope" and another Russian emigrant and businessman David Sarnov - the only one who believed in Zworykin's dream - to transmit the image "yes, even from the moon"!
Frederick Alessi from the doorway, having come to visit Channel One, recognized the very TV on which, together with Zworykin, back in 1969, they watched a live broadcast of the landing of a man on the moon. True, Zworykin did not want to see his dream come true before the eyes of millions.
“He pretended that he was not interested! But, with his wife and a servant, we pulled him out of bed, sat him near this TV, and he saw Neil Armstrong, who landed on the moon! And a tear rolled down his cheek. Then I firmly took his hand ... It was an amazing moment! - said the biographer V.K. Zworykin Frederick Alessi.
The son of a merchant of the first guild from Murom, a former white officer and an incredibly talented young scientist, Vladimir Zworykin ended up in America after the revolution, where he assembled the first television system with his own hands. But, I had to explain how it works in English. And it was torture.
Mark Krivosheev met Zworykin in 1957 in Paris, and 12 years before that, he directed the first post-war television broadcast from Shabolovka. All the equipment at that time was American, that is, Zvorykin's.
“It was one studio camera! One! And two movie cameras,” recalls Mark Krivosheev, chief researcher at the Radio Research Institute.
The word "television camera" did not yet exist, as did "viewers". But the first television center sent to Moscow, as they say, on the initiative of Zworykin himself, was already broadcasting.
"They said that he was the initiator of this case! Both he and Sarnov set up a television center on favorable terms! But the fact is that he was the first!" - said Mark Krivosheev, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Chief Researcher of the Radio Research Institute.
The granddaughter of Vladimir Zworykin, Sandra Knudsen, walking along the corridors of the Ostankino Television Center, noticed from a distance: such a familiar face. "Yes, there is my grandfather at the very end of the corridor. It looks like this is definitely the door to the future!" - exclaimed the granddaughter of V.K. Zvorykina Sandra Knudsen.
Sandra read the name of her great grandfather in Russian. She tried to learn his native language, but she failed. And so I wanted to look deeper into this wonderful world.
"When we drove to my grandfather's, I knew that we would walk in the woods, which I never did at home, we would eat delicious things: pies, raspberries, mushrooms - that is, everything that does not look like American peanut butter sandwiches! " - notes the granddaughter of V.K. Zvorykina Sandra Knudsen.
The man who changed the entire 20th century, of course, was thinking of returning to his homeland. But at first it was more prudent to work overseas, and then life has already taken shape.
Modern television and, in general, everything that shoots and shows, of course, has gone far ahead. As from Zvorykin's kinescope - there is no longer a tube protruding half a meter, and screens - at least two meters or more, so Zvorykin's iconoscopes have long been replaced by high-definition television cameras. But, it is obvious that without the dreamer and creator Vladimir Zvorykin and his inventions, today's television, perhaps, would only take its first steps!
And we would definitely never see everything that we love so much today: TV shows, announcers, artists, concerts and films ... Everything that for decades the whole country cried and laughed at, fell asleep, recognized, rejoiced, sang and admired. Even if Zworykin himself was not always satisfied with his brainchild. However, the granddaughter of the genius is sure that today he would probably be happy, even despite all his shyness.
“Wow, how he looks like! That’s how I remember him! But, you know, grandfather was a very modest person. And it seems to me that, while no one sees, he would take this monument to his home to show it only closest. And yet, you know, this figure is much taller, and my grandfather was my height, "said Sandra Knudsen.
To a person of short stature, who has reached an unattainable height with his mind and perseverance, you can already easily approach, stand next to him. Just like celebrities, which without Vladimir Zworykin we most likely would not even know.
From here you have a beautiful view of Ostankino TV tower. This is a television tower, the height of which is five hundred and forty meters. It was erected in 1964-1967 at the same time as the television and radio broadcasting center, in the premises of which they constantly work: Channel 1, NTV, VID and about two hundred more broadcasting companies.
Having admired the tower, we went along Ostankino pond, which was dug at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Under the Sheremetevs, a theater was located in this area, performances in which were given by serfs .... Now On the shore of the pond there is a sculpture to the creator of TV Vladimir Zworykin.
On this side of 1st Ostankinskaya Street there is tram depot, and in it is a cafe that sells delicious donuts.
And on the other side of the 1st Ostankinskaya street - a beautiful Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Ostankino. Construction of the end of the seventeenth century. The facade of the temple is very impressive. The temple belongs to the complex of monuments of the museum-estate "Ostankino" and is considered an object of cultural heritage.
To the right of the temple is Ostankino Palace. Now you can not see all the splendor of the palace, as its facades and dome are covered with restoration scaffolding. It is known that the palace was built by the serfs of Count Nikolai Sheremetev. Unlike other metropolitan palaces - in Ostankino - a hall for spectators, a stage for actors, ceremonial halls, living rooms, office premises were built. On the stage of this palace, the future wife of the count, the serf Praskovya, shone. The count came up with a pseudonym for her - the surname Zhemchugova. Ostankino performances were visited by St. Petersburg and Moscow nobility, emperors and empresses, foreign ambassadors.
A little to the right of the palace is the entrance to Ostankino park- one of the landscape parks in Moscow. It has changed a lot since its inception. Its central part was laid during the construction of the palace. It was a regular "French" garden with many statues, pavilions and seven ponds. Huge Siberian cedars were planted not far from the palace, surrounded by an oak grove.
Right next to the entrance we see monument to the volunteers of the 13th and 6th divisions of the people's militia who defended Moscow in 1941.
The park is quite big. Here everyone will find something interesting for themselves. The park has sports grounds, playgrounds, cafes, specially equipped barbecue areas, dance floors, a stadium and much more. While we were walking in the park, we took photographs of some objects: A cool sculpture carved from the trunk of a large oak tree.
Ponds that separated the territories of the Ostankino Park and the Botanical Garden.
Ducks walk along the new park paths along with people.
This is an April Sunday. We wish you all a pleasant stay and good mood!
article dated April 17, 2016
A country: Russia
City: Moscow
Nearest metro: VDNH
Was passed: 2013
Sculptor: Goryaev Sergey
Architect: Tikhonov Alexey
Description
The monument to Vladimir Kozmich, a Russian scientist and inventor of television Zvorykin, is a sculptural composition of a two-meter bronze sculpture of a scientist and the first TV set made of granite.
The monument is interactive; just like Vladimir Kozmich, you can lean on the TV from the opposite side and take a photo as a keepsake. And also you can, crouching behind the TV, be on the air and say hello to everyone.
History of creation
The monument was erected on the banks of the Ostankino pond near the Ostankino television center on July 29, 2013 to the bottom of the 125th anniversary of the scientist-inventor.
How to get there
Arrive at VDNKh metro station. Exit in the direction of VDNKh and go to the entrance to the exhibition center, then take the monorail line and go to the Telecenter station. From the stop, return to the Ostankino pond and go around the pond towards the Trinity Church. Here on the embankment, opposite the entrance to the Ostankino Park, you will find a monument to the inventor of television Zworykin Vladimir Kozmich.
Monument to Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin - the Russian inventor of television was opened in the city of Moscow in 2013, on July 29. The event was timed to coincide with the 125th anniversary of the birth of the great engineer.
The composition was created by the sculptor Sergei Vitalyevich Goryaev with the participation of the architect Alexei Konstantinovich Tikhonov.
The place for installation was chosen symbolic for our country - next to the Ostankino television center, on the banks of the Ostankino pond, against the background.
Photo 1. Monument to engineer Vladimir Zworykin in Ostankino
The sculpture of Zvorykin, two meters high, was cast in bronze, but his brainchild - a TV set - was sculpted from noble marble.
The authors of the sculptural composition executed the solution in such a way that the screen of the "TV" is made in the form of an opening, incl. any of those who come here can easily become a kind of TV presenter, standing behind the "screen".
From the biography of engineer Zvorykin
It so happened that Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin, although he received his education in the Russian Empire, lived most of his fruitful life in the United States.
In 1923, he registered a patent application for the principle of television broadcasting, based entirely on electronic principle, and created the telescope itself. It was Vladimir Kozmich who played a decisive role in the development of television in Europe, advising local specialists.
As for the USSR, the "Zvorykin" television was introduced already in 1938. At the same time, the production of TK-1 television sets equipped with the kinescope invented by Zworykin began.
