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      🌅 Okhta Reservoir at the "Stone Flower"

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      The southern edge of the Okhta Reservoir — a water body created for the gunpowder mills — by the monument to the factory.

      Okhta Reservoir at the "Stone Flower"
      © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
      Okhta Reservoir at the "Stone Flower"
      © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • The reservoir appeared in 1716, when a dam backed up the Okhta 9 km from its mouth for the gunpowder factory.
      • The reservoir stretches 5 km and is about 250 m wide; its surface area is 1.08 km² and it is no more than 4 m deep.
      • The Okhta dam is the oldest hydraulic structure in Petersburg: the first, wooden one was built in 1715.
      • The "Stone Flower" is built from old millstones left over from the Russian Empire-era dam — it was made during the 2013–2015 reconstruction.
      • The dam's railings with artillery emblems, lost in 1965, were recreated in 2013–2017.

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