Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro power plant shrouded in ice thickness of 30 meters (18 photos)

During the first two weeks of 2010 sharply aggravated the problem of icing of the power plant. Spillway was closed almost continuous ice shell and its grooves appeared overlapped with ice. On the bridge crane has grown a huge block of ice, which has a height of about 30 meters, and raised above the walls enclosing the spillway. The huge iceberg has accumulated about 40 thousand tons of ice, and about 60 thousand tons of naroslo at the spillway.