An excerpt about the construction of the Yerevan TV Tower, published in the Evening Yerevan newspaper in 1977. This is a unique story about the birth of the steel giant - a 311.7-meter-tall tower.

The original newspaper text:

The skyline of the capital was enriched by another structure: the 311.7 - meter television tower has been commissioned. It took exactly thirty-seven months for eight assemblers from the Rustavi division of 'Gruzomontazhspetsstroy' to raise the steel giant. For 37 months straight, under the supervision of Vasily Demchenko, the senior construction workers wrested meters from the sky, day by day. The final segment - a 26-meter section - was installed by the assemblers on March 27.

It took exactly 45 minutes for the elevator to lift the team leader, Fyodor Glazov, along with his colleagues Zurab Tkemaladze, Viktor Filionenko, Suren Gevorgyan, Dmitry Ilyushenko, and Ivane Maisuradze, to a height of 280 meters. Down below remained crane operator Viktor Manilov and Vasily Demchenko.

Vasily Demchenko stands by the 'command ladder' and begins his truly meticulous, almost jeweler-like work. Meter by meter, the giant pipe - inside which all the assembly participants managed to leave their signatures - glides upward, then pauses for a moment at the command of the 'commander.' Carefully, it is brought closer to the top of the tower, just a little more and… Yerevan’s new television tower takes on its complete form

The first to congratulate the senior workers were Hrachya Atabekyan, head of the Production and Technical Department of the Rustavi division; Boris But, a Kyiv-based engineer and one of the tower's designers; specialists from Leningrad, Semyon Smorodinsky and Vyacheslav Prokopovich; and, of course, the hosts - Deputy Minister of Communications of the Armenian SSR, Yu. Kozlov, and Director of the Yerevan Television Center, Vahram Khachatryan.

As the Director of the Yerevan Television Center told our correspondent, after the assemblers, it will be the turn of the communications specialists to ‘register’ at the tower - they will install the equipment and adjust the antennas. Once the tower is operational, television viewers in Armenia will have access to four channels: two from Armenian Television and two from the Central Television. And this will happen on the day of the 60th anniversary of the Great October Revolution.