construction work on this facility with an area of 950 hectares, which hoisted at the beginning of the 1990s over 20 transmitters working in the short- and mediumwave range, took place between 1968 and 1975. the antennas consist of several antennas for shortwave with heights between 60 and 160 metres and a large rotatable shortwave antenna, which can focus its radiation to every point on earth. after the collapse of the soviet union, its transmitters were used by several foreign broadcasting companies. in 1997 several antennas were destroyed or damaged by excessive icing. the largest loss was a 350 metres tall guyed mast and a 250 metres tall mast used for mediumwave broadcasting.