The construction of engineering protective structures will protect several socially significant objects of the city of Almaty and the Almaty region

Vice-Minister for Emergency Situations Marat Kuldikov arrived in Almaty on a working visit.

Today, he visited the construction site of the Chukurbulak selezaderzhivayushchy dam in the Korgas River basin. He also got acquainted with the construction progress of the Khorgos-1 and Khorgos-2 projects. During the visit, Marat Kuldikov gave instructions on the need to keep the construction of these facilities under constant control.

It should be noted that in the upper reaches of the cross-border Korgas River in the Kazakh part there are 116 glaciers and 36 moraine lakes.

According to the developers of the projects, the complex of engineering and protective structures will protect the village of Baskunchi, the southern part of the village of Khorgos, from flooding. The Dostyk hydroelectric complex and their irrigation channels will also be protected.

The construction will protect the territories of the International Center for Border Cooperation "Khorgos", railway and road bridges, roads of Western Europe - Western China, as well as a section of the Kazakhstan-China gas pipeline from destruction and flooding.