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Floating fountain on Neva

Floating fountain on Neva Perhaps, the youngest sight, but already drawing attention of all without exception of tourists, and city dwellers on Neva.

On June, 12th 2006 solemn ceremony of start-up of the biggest in Russia the floating gushing complex erected at the Arrow of island Vasilevskogo. The construcion 70 on 70 meters is highlighted by projectors, video- and laser installations. It reminds the screen on which it is possible to show light performances with music underneath.

This unique hydraulic engineering construction. The special design allows the equipment to change depth and to dive under water with help of special capacities. In a fountain is there about 2,5 thousand multi-coloured light installations and 700 jets. The height of jets reaches 60 meters. The platform consists of the steel pipes welded among themselves, the weight of a pontoon reaches 230 tons. The construction can move only on waves. On a pontoon floor 695 pumps and 2652 fixtures are placed. At inclusion of a full mode of a jet form the continuous water screen.

The transformer substation for management of fountains is placed in underwater platform, installed sideways from a pontoon field and looks like submarine. Power of fountains is calculated about 3,4 megawatts. For maintenance of a complex with the necessary electric power the cable is stretched, in length of 1 km, including on a bottom of Neva - 100 meters. A high acoustic level of musical show provided by dynamics, located in the precise sequence verified by experts-physicists. According to calculations of experts, for one business hour the gushing complex will overtake about 30 thousand cubic metre of river water. A part of the works providing power supply of a complex, has executed Open Society "Lenenergo". Besides at installation of acoustic systems of a gushing complex friendly aid was rendered by the State Hermitage, having allocated points of connection from the power reserve. The maximal height of jets is equal to 60 meters that is comparable to a 20-storeyed building. Depth of Neva in an installation site of a pontoon field varies from 2,5 up to 5 meters, distance up to coast – 100 meters.

Every summer evening laser musical show with participation of a floating fountain arranging in water area of Neva. Thousand people gather in the evening on quays of Neva and on arrow of island Vasilevskogo to enjoy a show and an atmosphere of a holiday which reigns here at the Petersburg white nights.

The shedule of a fountain