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The construction of the largest blast-fill dams that had been built in the former USSR in 1959–1989 is described, the Medeo and the Baipaza dams exceeding 1×106 m3 in volume in particular. Explosions had been designed by use of the modeling device allowing estimation of the single blasts parameters that provide the required dams’ size. The experimental Burlykia and Uch-Terek dams are described that have been constructed during the preparation for construction of the unique Kambarata-1 dam which have had to be about 200×106 m3 in volume. Method of this dam construction by avalanche-like motion of debris from the exploded slope is elaborated on the basis of data on these dam constructions and of data on natural blockages.
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Adushkin, V. (2011). Russian Experience with Blast-Fill Dam Construction. In: Evans, S., Hermanns, R., Strom, A., Scarascia-Mugnozza, G. (eds) Natural and Artificial Rockslide Dams. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 133. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04764-0_25
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