A map of easily flooded areas of St. Petersburg from Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary of 1907.
Floods in Saint Petersburg refer to a rise of water on the territory of St. Petersburg, a major city in Russia and its former capital. They are usually caused by the overflow of the delta of Neva River and surging water in the eastern part of Neva Bay but sometimes caused by melting snow. Floods are registered when the water rises above 160 cm with respect to a gauge at the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute. More than 300 floods have occurred since the city was founded in 1703.[1][2][3]
The construction of Saint Petersburg Dam, started in 1978 and completed in 2011, is expected to protect the city from devastating floods.[4] The dam is the last completed part of the Saint Petersburg Ring Road. Its first use to hold back the incoming Baltic water into Neva bay took place 28 November 2011 and had resulted in decrease of water rise to 1.3 MASL, that is below flood level equal to 1.6 masl,[5] which prevented the 309th flood in the history of the city and saved some 1.3 billion roubles of possible damage.[6]
^Holly Hughes, Larry West (2008). Frommer's 500 Places to See Before They Disappear. Frommer's. p. 327. ISBN 0-470-18986-X.
^D. V. Ryabchuk; et al. The Neva Bay (Russia) – antropogenic lagoon(PDF). All-Russia Research Geological Institute.
^Water pollution in the hydroelectric power plants area[permanent dead link]
^[Saint Petersburg Dam official site (in Russian)
^(in Russian) Мощнейший ураган и наводнение накрыли Петербург: вода угрожает городу (ВИДЕО), Главред, 11/28/2011
^Дирекция КЗС: Дамба предотвратила ущерб в 1,3 млрд рублей (in Russian)
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