Kiev Sea

Kiev Sea
The Kiev Sea in March 2017
Tributaries: Pripjet and Dnepr Drain: Dnepr Major cities nearby: Kiev
Coordinates	50 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 30 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 30 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E
Data on the structure
Construction time:	- 1964
Height of the barrier structure :	38 m
Building volume:	45.700 million m³
Crown length:	42,817 m
Data on the reservoir
Water surface	922 km²
Storage space	3730 million m³
Landsat image of the Kiev Sea
Map of the Kiev Sea (reservoir)

Aerial view of the dam

Kiev Sea (Ukrainian Київське водосховище / Kyjiwske wodoschowyschtsche ; Russian Киевское водохранилище / Kiewskoje wodochranilischtsche ) is the name for a reservoir at Kiev. It begins 20 km north of Kiev and has an area of ​​922 km². In the north it is fed by the Pripyat and Dnepr rivers and extends as far as the Belarusian border.

The reservoir was created in the 1960s under Nikita Sergejewitsch Khrushchev . The Dnepr is dammed up to a width of 20 km here. The difference in altitude is used in a large hydroelectric power station to generate electricity. It was built as the last of the six reservoirs .

The barrier structure is a 41 km long dam, which at the time of its construction was the longest dam on earth. Today in America there are two longer ones and two more longer ones that are still under construction, so that the Kiev dam is now in sixth place (see list of dams in the world ).

The Kiev Sea has some steep banks with deep cuts in the landscape, which run across the river.

There are no larger towns on the lake, only smaller towns such as Vyshhorod , Nowi Petrivtsi , Stari Petrivtsi , Lyutisch and other villages.

Individual evidence

See also

• Reservoirs in Ukraine
• List of the largest dams on earth
• List of the largest reservoirs on earth
• List of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world
• List of dams in the world

Web links

Commons : Kiev Reservoir  - collection of images