Analysis of avalanche danger on the Tsulzhanskaia track maintenance department of the Krasnoyarsk railway

Every year the considerable part of money for snow control on mountain sites of railways spends on elimination of consequences of avalanching

4,700 m of avalanche dangerous places
1,600 of mudflow dangerous places
6,100 m of toppling dangerous places
20,580 m of terrace erosion and an embankment base undermining
Difficult environments within
200 km of the Tsulzhanskaia track maintenance department along
the Tom’ river

Avalanching down to the track

Blockages liquidation

Rotary snow plough

Number of avalanching for twenty-four hours

Areas of avalanching

Number of avalanching, months %

Volume of avalanching, thousand m3
м3

Shelling from artillery

Snow- restraint cage constructions

Avalanche gallery