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The Construction Project
in Tallinn
The Master Plan for the Development
of Tallinn, the capital of the
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, envisaged
the construction in the city
and its suburbs of a number of sports
facilities necessary for the development
of mass sports and for
townspeople to engage in physical
culture. The facilities necessary for
staging the Olympic Regatta, receiving
and servicing its competitors, officials,
guests of honour, journalists and tourists
were designed and built with
due consideration to the Master
Plan.
The Yachting Centre, which was
built on the shore of Tallinn Bay, in
the estuary of the Pirita River (within
the city limits), was the main sports
facility.
The Yachting Centre is a unique
complex consisting of a harbour, a
hotel, a Yacht-Club with covered slips
and shops, and a sports complex,
making up a single architectural ensemble.
The plan of the Yachting Centre is
shown on Fig.1 and the plan of the
sports building floor on Fig.2
The main harbour parametres are:
water area—193,000 sq m; total length
of the piers—1,440 m; length of the
slips—180 m; average depth of the
harbour—3.5 m.
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The harbour is intended for mooring
750 various vessels, including 150
keel yachts; 250 centreboarders at
moorings, and 130 on racks; and 220
launches and cruiser yachts at moorings.
The stone and concrete-block
moles protecting the harbour from
Yachting Centre. The Club