Ugolnaya Harbour

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UGOLNAYA HARBOUR (Coal Harbour) is an artificial harbour located in the south-eastern St. Petersburg. It was constructed in the area of a small arm of Neva Bay for unloading of vessels shipping coal at the turn of the 20th century. The name appeared in the 1910s after the construction of New Pier separating the Harbour from the Gulf of Finland. Ugolnaya Harbour is a rectangular basin, 2 km long, 0.7 km wide and up to 5 meters deep. Ugolnaya Harbour was prolonged to the south-east with elongated valley-shaped basins of Bolshaya and Malaya Turukhtanny Harbours (1.5 km and 1 km long) divided with reinforced railway embankments and highways to the Turukhtan Islands and Ugolnaya Harbour. The three Harbours have berths and port works; their coasts are partially occupied with factory facilities. The water is polluted. The north-western part of Ugolnaya Harbour is connected to the Morskoy Canal and deepened to 12 meters. It is now used for exporting forest materials.

Y. P. Seliverstov.