3D print the Almaty Tower
A free, printable model of the tall steel tower, with its two round observation decks and thin antenna, on a hillside with winding roads and a few buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Almaty Tower in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- Real height
- 372 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 102 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
372 m of the Almaty Tower, 102 mm on your shelf
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- A very slender shaft
The tower is a long, thin column with a thin antenna on top, so it is delicate in proportion to its height. Print friendly adapts the thinnest parts to the print scale; printing slowly helps the tall tip.
- Round decks and antenna rings
Two round decks and small rings along the mast carry fine detail. Full detail keeps them on a larger print, and a layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm keeps them crisp.
- One piece with the ground
The Almaty Tower is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Almaty Tower takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Almaty Tower
The Almaty Television Tower, known simply as Almaty Tower and formally as the Koktobe TV Tower, is a steel television tower in Almaty, Kazakhstan, built between 1975 and 1983. It rises 371.5 meters (1,219 ft) on the high slopes of Kok Tobe mountain, south-east of downtown. Unlike similar TV towers, it is a steel tubular structure instead of a concrete one, and it is the world's tallest free-standing tubular steel structure.
Its metal aerial, 114 m long, tops out at 1000 meters above sea level. Two observation decks, at 146 m and 252 m, are served by two high-speed elevators. A mosaic measuring 20 by 8 meters, among the largest in the city, was installed on the north-western wall in honor of the Soyuz T-12 spacecraft launch, and it shows satellites and astronauts. Several tunnels in the tower lead to a bomb shelter.
The architects were Terziev, Savchenko, Akimov and Ostroumov. The tower entered operation on June 1, 1984, at a cost of 600 million rubles. In October 1984 a fire broke out when TV transmitter feeders burned, because of errors in calculating how radio power was distributed over the antenna panels. A 2010 state list of monuments kept its status as a monument of local importance.
About this model
The Almaty Tower is one of more than 4,900 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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