Yerevan lake
| Yerevan lake | ||
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| Lake Yerevan with the Yerevan television tower in the background, 2005 | ||
| Geographical location | Koghb, Shengavite District | |
| Tributaries | Hrasdan | |
| Drain | Hrasdan → Macaws → Kura | |
| Location close to the shore | Yerevan | |
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| Coordinates | 40 ° 9 '35 " N , 44 ° 28' 37" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 908 m | |
| surface | 0.95 km 2 | |
| length | 900 m | |
| width | 900 m | |
| volume | 4.8 m 3 | |
| Maximum depth | 18 m | |
Lake Yerevan ( Armenian Երևանյան լիճ ) is a reservoir in the west of the Armenian capital Yerevan , which was completed in 1970. It is located in the neighborhood Koghb in Yerevan city district Shengavit .
The lake has a surface of 95 hectares with a maximum depth of 18 meters. There are fish such as carp in the lake .
On the north bank of Lake Yerevan is the US Embassy , which was built there from June 2002 to May 2005 and was the world's largest US embassy in terms of land area; the south bank borders the main road M5 .
Trolleybus accident
On September 16, 1976, a trolleybus with 92 passengers on board drove into the lake and sank around 25 meters from the shore to a depth of 10 meters. Sharwasch Karapetjan , who happened to pass by during training at the time, was 22 and a multiple world champion in fin swimming , immediately jumped into the lake. With almost no view, he stepped into the back window of the bus and saved 20 passengers whom he dragged into the air.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Geographic Characteristics of the Republic of Armenia 2011 on armstat.am ( PDF , 142 kB; Armenian / English)
- ↑ The United States Embassy in Kabul is now the largest US embassy.
- ↑ USA Embassy Complex in Yerevan, Armenia on the website of the Armenian construction company Mil Industries (English)
- ↑ Grantland: The Plunge . Article by Carl Schreck from September 17, 2014