Talk:Orsk Dam collapse

Latest comment: 3 days ago by 95.193.146.155 in topic Mistranslation

Events leading to the collapse edit

There should be a section on things that led to the collapse, including inspections that determined it was safe. Dismalscholar (talk) 00:29, 8 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Reformat edit

Propose doing away with the format and provide a narrative account of the dam without being split by date. It is discouraging to insert data here that cannot be compartmentalized by date, particularly since there are many communities that are only belatedly reporting damage later. Borgenland (talk) 15:12, 10 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Mistranslation edit

It wasn’t a dam but what’d properly be called a levee or embankment - an earthen embankment on the river bank. Russian ”damba” can mean both but ”dam” in English is a narrower term, and thus a bit of a ”false friend” word. 95.193.146.155 (talk) 16:51, 30 April 2024 (UTC)Reply