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Krivaya Damba

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KRIVAYA DAMBA (Curved Dam) is an artificial island bent in its plan (hence the name). It appeared during the construction of the Commercial Sea Port of St. Petersburg in 1870s. It is about one kilometre long and a maximum of 100 metres wide. The island is situated at the mouth of the Ekaterinhofka River between the southern extremity of Gutuevsky Island (Grebenka Damba and Lesnoy Port) and Lesnoy Mol Peninsula stretched towards the Gulf of Finland. Lesnaya Gavan is a water zone between Krivaya Damba and Lesnoy Mol leading west to Morskoy Canal.

Е. А. Bondarchuk, P. Y. Yudin.