Izhorskaya Dam

Izhorskaya Dam located in Izhevsk was built in 1760 and reconstructed from 1816 to 1824 according to designs by A.Deryabin and S.Dudin. Its length is 646.6 meters, width - 30 meters. Originally it had a length of 570 meters, width of 27.7 meters and height of 8.5 meters. In the 1980s its size almost doubled. Made of pine and oak logs with metal fastenings and filled clay voids, the dam's framework consists. River Izh flows through the dam from east to west creating Izhorsky Lake.