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Avala TV Tower was a 202.87 metre (666 feet) tall telecommunication tower located on Avala mountain near Belgrade, Serbia. On December 21, 2006 the reconstruction of Avala Tower commenced.
The tower was constructed by architects Uglješa Bogdanović and Slobodan Janjić, and engineer Milan Krstić. Construction started on October 14, 1961 and was completed four years later in 1965. The tower weighed four thousand tons. From the height of 102 metres to a 135 metres there was an all glass area to which visitors could come via two quick elevators. On the top of the tower there was an antenna, which was at first used for black and white television transmission. The project, which was of high risk, was finished without any worker injuries or deaths, which was unusual for a project of its size. It quickly became the symbol of Belgrade.
Avala Tower was destroyed on April 29, 1999 by NATO bombardment, supposedly to put Radio Television of Serbia off the air.

In 2004, Radio Television Serbia commenced a series of fund-raising events in order to collect money to construct the building once again at the same place it was destroyed. Completion of the new tower is expected in August 2008.