page_title: Medeu Dam
hierarchical_section_title: Medeu Dam
caption_attribution_description: English: Medeu ice skating rink, seen from the anti-mudflow dam
context_page_description: The Medeu Mudflow Control Dam is a dam across the Medeu Valley south-east of Almaty, Kazakhstan, designed to protect the city from devastating debris flows.
context_section_description: The Medeu Mudflow Control Dam (Kazakh: Медеу бөгеті, Medeý bógeti) is a dam across the Medeu Valley south-east of Almaty, Kazakhstan, designed to protect the city from devastating debris flows (or mudflows).
caption: Looking down from Medeu Dam, toward  the Medeu Skating Rink to the north
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