Abstract: An electric dust collector has a chamber through which a gas to be cleaned is directed by a fan. A precipitating device in the chamber includes ionization electrodes and counter-electrodes upstream of an electrostatic field formed by positive and negative electrodes. The negative electrodes serve as collector electrodes for accumulating impurity particles from the air being cleaned and comprise a water film continuously flowing over a plate made of electrically insulating glass having wettable properties. Pipes extending in the direction of the upper edge of the collector electrodes have apertures for directing currents of water onto the plates and are connected to ground so that the water film has a polarity opposite to that of the particles.