In the late 1960s it was decided to replace the 180-metre (590 ft)-high TV tower in Yerevan due to the insufficient capacity of the latter.

The project leaders were Isaak Zatulovsky, Anatoli Perelmuter, Mark Grinberg, Yuri Shevernitsky, and Boris But.

The structure of the TV tower in Yerevan is virtually divided into three parts: base, body, and antenna.

[3] Installation of the tower in 1977 allowed to receive a wide variety of programs from the Moscow Central television, as well as from other Soviet Union republics.

In 1978 it became possible to also receive the fourth channel of the Central television in Armenia[4] In 1978 the programs watched were news (25%), music (23%), educational (13%), pre-adult entertainment (14.5%), political (9%) and military (6%), sport (4%), movies (3.5%) and others.

In the subsequent years Armenia became the first of the republics of the Soviet Union by the percentage of the TV audience and the volume of programs.