rsburg_Dam" title="Saint Petersburg Dam">Saint Petersburg Dam</a>.</div>
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<div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Dam" title="Saint Petersburg Dam">Saint Petersburg Dam</a></div>
<p>Construction of a <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Dam" title="Saint Petersburg Dam">complex of dams</a> protecting St. Petersburg from the floods began in 1979 but was halted in the 1990s when 60% was completed.<sup id="cite_ref-f1