Leningrad without Floods

City of Leningrad: rivers Moika, Fontanka, Neva; canals, bridges. Monument to Peter I, Church of the Resurrection of Christ (Savior on Spilled Blood). Artistic engravings depicting floods in St. Petersburg in 1824, 1871; the embankment of the Neva near the Rosstralny Columns, the Winter Palace, the Wooden Bridge, flooded with water; sailboats in the waves of the Neva River. Newsreel: floods of 1924, 1975, 1977, 1983; people in a boat are sailing along a flooded street; Stone island flooded with water. Researchers at the Lenhydroproject Research Institute work with aerodynamic, hydraulic models, with electronic devices in the engine room. Research vessel "Priboy" on the water. Construction of a complex of hydraulic structures in the Nevskaya Guba and the Gulf of Finland, protecting the city of Leningrad from floods. Excavators work. Hydrocomplex type. Director of the Hydrological Research Institute I. A. Shiklomanov answers questions from correspondents about the impact of the hydro-complex on the ecological state of the Neva River basin and the Gulf of Finland. Treatment facilities.

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Script by A. Sharymov, sound by S. Akmanov