aqueduct project developed in 1834 by Engineer-Colonel John (Ivan Ivanovich), Upton , an Englishman in the Russian service .
In Sevastopol, his name is perpetuated in many buildings. The most famous and best preserved , it Count pier , built in 1846 .
Another surviving monument is located in the heart of the city.This is a Tower of the Winds . In addition, Upton spent all neoobhodimye surveys for the construction and completed planning project downtown.
Aqueduct Ushakova beam was part of a gravity water , supply water to the docks Ship ( Dock ) of the bay.They were built in the mid- forties of the nineteenth century under Grand Admiral MP Lazarev. The main construction material was limestone .
The water in the water came from the Black River.
It began near the village water supply Chorgun , walking along the valley of Inkerman on an open channel , ravines crossed by aqueducts , rocky headlands - the tunnels .
Since water flowed on the ship's side in the dry docks Admiralty, renamed later in the Naval Works.
Docking basin is a large rectangular tank , carved in limestone and lined with granite. The ship entered the dock , the gates were closed , the pumps operated by steam engine pumped water. After repairing plumbing hooked up , water filled the pool, then doors open and the ship went out into the bay.This special water about 17 km long ( it started at the present village of Khmelnytsky , was on the highway a few tunnels and aqueducts ) , was built due to the fact that the Sevastopol bay contaminated marine worm - drevotochtsem toredo and repairing wooden ships were carried out using fresh water.Wooden ships were in the Black Sea fleet , only six to ten years , during which time the worm ate their body , despite the copper plating . In order to save the ships from toredo , swimming pools filled with fresh water , in which the worm can not exist. During the defense of Sevastopol in 1854-1855 .docks were heavily bombed , and after the withdrawal of Russian troops from the South side exploded by the British. When the Crimean War was over, plumbing repair did not, but in the 70s most of his tracks were destroyed during the construction of the railway Lozova -Sevastopol. He suffered during the Great Patriotic War.
Today, part of the aqueduct remained in the Apollo (9 spans ) and beams Ushakova (6 spans ).
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