In 2011–2014, the hydrological situation in the area was quite dynamic (Weather report RP5). The spring and summer of 2012 followed the dry winter of 2011. However, there was abundant rainfall in Primorye in the autumn of 2012, and the soils were humid in the first half of 2013. Therefore, when a cyclone brought more than 670 mm of rain in many areas of the southern Far East in July, 2013, catastrophic floods followed. According to our estimates, the rise of the water level in Vaskovskoe Lake was approximately 2 m. Flooding was caused in part because large amounts of water were dropped during this time from the Dalnegorsk reservoirs into the Rudnaya River, where a creek flows from the lake.