Volgograd floating landing, Wooden landing pier in Krasnoslobodsk, Russia
The Volgograd floating landing is a wooden two-deck landing stage built in 1954 at the Gorodets shipyard. Its long facade has a recessed lower gallery on square posts and an upper balcony with slender round columns and a criss-cross frieze. It stands on Lake Denezhnoe in the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain, north of Krasnoslobodsk.
Built in 1954 at the Gorodets shipyard in Gorky Oblast, the landing first served as the river station of Kamyshin after the Volga hydroelectric station was completed, receiving passenger steamers on the Kamyshinka. In 1966 it was towed to Krasnoslobodsk and moored on Lake Denezhnoe as the rowing base of the Dynamo sports society. In 2013 it was recognised as an identified cultural heritage object, then burned down on 26 June 2013.
After 1966 the landing served as the rowing base of the Dinamo sports society on Denezhnoe Lake, where an open water stadium for aquatic sports operated. The site later drew tourists and photographers from Volgograd, 3 km away, and campaigners proposed turning it into a Museum of the Volga, with model shipbuilder Alexander Skorobogatov offering 37 scale ships.
The structure stands on Denezhnoe Lake in the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain, about 3 km from Volgograd and north of Krasnoslobodsk. It burned down on 26 June 2013, and in autumn 2014 the Volgograd State Academy of Physical Culture auctioned off the removal of its remains, so only the ruined wooden frame survives. Approach from the shore; the charred decks and collapsed gallery are unsafe to walk on.
In 2012 inspectors from the Russian River Register examined the hull and attributed it to project No. 33. The same year, the Ministry of Sport wrote the landing off as unfit for use, a decision that set off the demolition attempt of 2013.
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