The investigation continues - a temporary dam on White Sea-Baltic Canal burst through In July 2024, several houses in a nearby village were washed away, perished three people, including a mother of many children.

It turned out that from the budget funds allocated for the reconstruction of the dam, stolen 11 млн rubles. The commercial organization's managers presented forged documents, including those detailing inflated quantities of sand delivered.  

They were charged with large-scale fraud, the Investigative Committee reported. The day before, security officials showed video, as special forces detain suspects—the construction director and project manager of the Moscow company that carried out the reconstruction. They have been taken into custody.  

Ранее сообщалосьThe reconstruction was carried out by the company "Aquatik." A temporary earthen cofferdam was constructed for the duration of the work, which was accepted by the contractor, the Federal State Institution "Rostransmodernizatsiya," in April 2024. At the time of the emergency, the water level in the dam had not been exceeded.

 Russia's dams are in trouble. Dam failures cause massive floods, and residents complain about the poor quality of the hydraulic structures. Right now, again sags The soil on the dam in Orsk is causing alarm among residents, the mayor calms, but residents remember last year's flood.

Last year, the flooding lasted from April to August. This was the case in Omsk, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk areas in Buryatia и PrimoryeAnd in 2023 it went under water. Ussuriysk — there was a dam there built, according to residents, "made of shit and sticks."