Strong telegraph pole

Russia / Jamalo-Nenets / Krasnoselkup /
 column, abandoned / shut down

Photo:
1) web.archive.org/web/20161019172044/www.panoramio.com/photo/60303101 (recorded: 07.09.2008, published: 09.10.2011)

This old telegraph pole was a part of the first telephone connection between Moskau and Norilsk in the fifties of the last century. It works to Igarka up to 1976. The pole is so strong, because from here went the line is crossing the river Taz (his water-surface is in the background).
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Coordinates:   65°59'38"N   82°9'29"E
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