“It was a beautiful sight watching this tower being built: whole sections — 25 metres in height and weighing 49 tons — suddenly appearing among the clouds without any assistance from workers and attracting the attention of every Muscovite. No cranes or scaffolding” — this is how Galankin, the production manager, remembered the construction work in Shablovka. 95 years ago today the first ever hyperboloid was completed, and around its 160 metre axis began the story of a brand new district.
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