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Krasnoyarsk Dam ship lift

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The Krasnoyarsk ship lift is a boat lift at the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station on the Yenisei River, located in Divnogorsk, Russia. It is the only boat lift in Russia.

— Wikipedia, Krasnoyarsk ship lift
First ship across
27 December 1977
In permanent service
25 November 1982
Building began
1963
Type
Inclined plane, rack railway
Greatest head
102.4 m
Track
1,189.66 m up, 305.15 m down, at 1 in 10
Gauge
9 m
Chamber
113.55 × 26.5 m; 4,530 t empty, 8,100 t full
Ships
Up to 1,500 t, 78 × 15 m, 1.9 m draught
Drive
156 hydraulic motors
Turntable
104.6 m, turns up to 142°
One crossing
90 minutes
Busiest year
688 trips (1988)
Operator
Yeniseirechtrans (Yenisei Basin Inland Waterways)
Dam
124 m high, 1,065 m long, 6,000 MW
1963 building began
1977 first ship across
1982 in permanent service

55.939° N, 92.287° E open the map ↗

Over the dam by rail · The route unrolled to scale, step by step: float in, climb, turn, down and out
How high it lifts · Against the world's other tall ship lifts, with ship sizes and cycle times
Busy once, quiet now · 688 trips in 1988, no more than 50 a year now, and the dates in between
  • The chamber on its trestles, with the dam behind. Photo: Sergey Tokarev
  • Heading down the long slope towards the river. Photo: Sergey Tokarev
  • Looking down into the basin from above. Photo: Sergey Tokarev
  • The chamber in the lower harbour, gate open. Photo: Sergey Tokarev
  • A ship riding in the chamber
  • A ship being carried over
  • The end of the chamber, where the gate closes
  • The turntable on the crest, from above
  • A barge in the lower harbour
  • The 9-metre-gauge track
  • The lower approach channel, where the track runs into the river
  • The dam in March 2026
  • The dam on the back of the 10-ruble note