# Anyone ID This Cold War-Era Lamp Post-Like Thingie?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 29, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-id-this-cold-war-era-lamp-post-like-thingie/465648 "2008-09-29T01:47:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-id-this-cold-war-era-lamp-post-like-thingie/465648/1 "2008-09-29T01:47:17Z")

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[Midway down the page there’s a video embedded.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7626061.stm) At about the 2:20 mark, you see the narrator standing next to what looks to be a lamp post modeled after a Soyuz rocket, but different enough in appearance that it clearly _isn’t_ supposed to be a Soyuz rocket (well, if it were designed by Roger Dean, perhaps a Soyuz rocket would look that way).

Given the way the camera pays attention to it, there’s obviously supposed to be some kind of iconic imagery associated with the thing, but danged if I know what it could be.

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**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-id-this-cold-war-era-lamp-post-like-thingie/465648/2 "2008-09-29T02:52:09Z")

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Beats me.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-id-this-cold-war-era-lamp-post-like-thingie/465648/3 "2008-09-29T07:49:22Z")

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It looks more like an architectural model of a tower to me.

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**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-id-this-cold-war-era-lamp-post-like-thingie/465648/4 "2008-09-29T09:24:09Z")

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It’s the [Ostankino](http://images.google.nl/images?hl=nl&q=ostankino&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi)TV tower in Moscow.

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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-id-this-cold-war-era-lamp-post-like-thingie/465648/5 "2008-09-29T20:04:55Z")

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> [@Svejk\_1](#):
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> It’s the [Ostankino](http://images.google.nl/images?hl=nl&q=ostankino&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi)TV tower in Moscow.

Huh, pretty cool looking for a TV tower. Why can’t we have cool crap like that?

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**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-id-this-cold-war-era-lamp-post-like-thingie/465648/6 "2008-09-29T20:20:57Z")

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> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> Huh, pretty cool looking for a TV tower. Why can’t we have cool crap like that?

Because the Canadians [beat you to it](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower), eh?