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Both nations canceled the offer in July 1956 for reasons not entirely known. A secret Egyptian arms agreement with the USSR and Egyptian recognition of the People's Republic of China are cited as possible reasons. As a response, Nasser nationalized the British and French-owned Suez Canal, intending to use tolls to subsidize the High Dam project. In retaliation, Israel, Britain, and France attacked Egypt and occupied the Suez Canal precipitating the Suez Crisis. The United Nations, US and USSR forced the invaders to withdraw and the canal was left in Egyptian hands. The Egyptian government intended to continue the project alone and use the revenues of the Suez Canal to help pay for construction. But in the Cold War struggle for influence in Africa the Soviet Union stepped in 1958, and possibly a third of the cost of the dam was paid for as a gift. They also provided technicians and heavy machinery. The enormous rock and clay dam was designed by the Russian Zuk Hydroproject Institute.















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Construction began in 1960. The High Dam, El Saad al Aali, was completed on July 21, 1970, with the first stage finished in 1964. The reservoir began filling in 1964 while the dam was still under construction and first reached capacity in 1976. The reservoir raised concerns from archaeologists and a rescue operation was begun in 1960 under UNESCO. Sites were surveyed and excavated and 24 major monuments were moved to safer locations (see Abu Simbel) or granted to countries that helped with the works (such as the Debod temple in Madrid). The Aswan High Dam is 3,600 m in length, 980 m wide at the base, 40 m wide at the crest and 111 m tall. It contains 43 million m³ of material. At maximum, 11,000 m³ of water can pass through the dam every second. There are further emergency spillways for an extra 5000 m³ per second and the Toshka Canal links the reservoir to the Toshka Depression. The reservoir, named Lake Nasser, is 480 km long and 16 km at its widest with a surface area of 6,000 km² and holds 150 to 165 km³.

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