Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

Workers operate a crane to lift a turbine rotary wheel, weighing 144.5 tons, to place it onto a barge for its further transportation to the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station at a river port on the Yenisei River, near Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on August 3.

Rotary wheels for a hydroelectric power station are transported upriver

Reuters reports:

Three new rotary wheels produced for the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, which was seriously damaged in August 2009, have been transported from St. Petersburg through the Arctic Ocean and up the Yenisei river to reach the settlement of Cheryomushki in the Republic of Khakassia, a journey of about 5,900 km (3,666 miles), according to local media.

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