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Here we are coming out of the channel of the
Lower Svir River lock onto the main stream of the river. And we see the
downstream side of the hydroelectric dam. In the 1920's American engineer
consultants advised against construction of a dam here, but the Russians went
ahead and succeeded. The lock was blown up during World war II but rebuilt and
has functioned ever since. But the relative gentle slope of terrain in Russia
indicates that many of the dams, such as this one generate electricity mostly
from volume of water flow rather than head achieved by a large drop.
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