Hoover Dam

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Level 30 Local Expert

You should definitely visit on your way to Vegas.The views themselves are fascinating, there are a lot of tourists, but everything is well organized and the groups go each to their own time. The guide will tell you in detail about the history of this place and its functionality. The project is designed in Art Deco style by American architect Gordon Kaufman. The body of the dam was filled not with monolithic blocks, but with trapezoidal columns, which increased evaporation and somewhat accelerated the cooling process of concrete. Almost 5 km of bypass tunnels were drilled into the rocks to drain river water. They are still partially used to drain and direct water to turbine installations of an electric substation. The dam helps to smooth out fluctuations in the river level, which eliminated the risk of flooding in the lower reaches of the Colorado. The dam's generators generate electricity, which is used for public and private needs in Nevada, Arizona and California.

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Сергей

Level 23 Local Expert

Hoover Dam (Hoover Dam) is a massive concrete dam on the Nevada-Arizona border, built in 1931-1936. It provides hydroelectric power generation, flood control, and water supply for irrigation and municipal needs in the southwestern United States. The dam created Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume.

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Александр Бадин

Level 23 Local Expert

A landmark of the state of Nevada. Car inspection at the entrance. There are several free parking lots. If you can't park nearby, look for a place in the nearest parking lot. You can take beautiful photos against the background of the dam and from the platinum itself. If you want a tour inside the platinum, do not forget the entrance is paid. There are no excursions with a Russian-speaking guide. The engine room was not hit. No frozen dysypticons were found) , although the film was shot here. It was closed at that time. You can buy souvenirs with the platinum symbol. Platinum is small, platinum is grander in Russia!

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Almost Sakurazi

Level 3 Local Expert

It's a wonderful place! However, the cosplayer tourists from Italy made a lot of noise, went overboard with the bitter and shouted that the dam was now theirs. I had to call the local police to calm them down. Special thanks to the man with the bullet in his head! Despite the injury, he conducted a bombing tour, which could have caused him to lose his balance and fall down! 🤠

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Денис Потапчук

Level 8 Local Expert

A beautiful place

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Чужаев Александр Эдуардович

Level 3 Local Expert

It's a beautiful place. Only some people are pointing guns at each other.

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Intelligence itself

Level 4 Local Expert

Thanks to the coordinated actions of the NKR armed forces, this dam has become a monument to the power of the soldiers of the bear flag, who ousted the Roman barbarians from this great structure. Now it's a small matter for us to install power lines throughout California, and provide our honest citizens with energy originating in the unruly waters of the Colorado River! Today we are the waves of the Pacific Ocean rolling towards the east! We are the resilient sequoias that have made their way out of the Sierra Nevada! Glory to the NKR! Glory to President Kimball!

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Alex Dronov

Level 9 Local Expert

It's a great place.

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Daniil Akinshin

Level 3 Local Expert

Don't worry, this dam is now protected from the dirty hands of capitalists and belongs to an enterprising man named Mr. House 😎

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R. C.

Level 11 Local Expert

One of the masterpieces of engineering, in the Art Deco style!

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Otto Krüge

Level 3 Local Expert

But here, 200 years later, the greatest battle will break out with Rome's cosplayers in skirts and soldiers similar to the British colonists of the 20th century. Think about it.

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timofey.ipatov7

Level 4 Local Expert

The absence of the NKR checkpoints is an unforgivable negligence, but after transformers and fast and furious, it was well repaired

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Дмитрий А.

Level 5 Local Expert

A beautiful landscape that will remain in your memory for a long time

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МУРАД И.

Level 7 Local Expert

So-so dam))). An ingenious solution of that time, but still without problems.