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The lift is currently sitting in a pool of water about seven meters below ground level ... shaft," the commercial NTV network said. The Ostankino tower was completed in 1967 and was the world's ...

Although firefighters said they had localised the Ostankino blaze ... had earlier engulfed the upper section of the tower from the top to far below its Seventh Heaven rotating restaurant 334 ...

Brown plumes of smoke billowed from the 540-meter (1,771-foot) Ostankino Tower on Monday morning, spreading out across northern Moscow as people watched from the streets below. But the smoke ...

Europe's tallest structure is on fire. A fire started early Sunday in the Ostankino television tower in Moscow. Seven firefighters escaped injury when one of the tower's elevators collapsed.

The Ostankino TV Tower is the world’s 4th tallest and Europe’s highest and rises to 540 metres (1,771 feet). It was built in 1967 by the famous Soviet engineer, Nikolai Nikitin.

Initially knocked off air by the fire, NTV was nevertheless able to transfer programming to TNT, another Media Most channel, which does not broadcast from the Ostankino tower. Mr Lesin said some ...

One of Moscow’s landmarks, the Ostankino Tower, will go dark for an hour on ... change if there was no progress Brent oil price down below $59 per barrel on ICE first time since April 9 As ...