Nizhnekamsk reservoir

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Nizhnekamsk reservoir
The reservoir near Naberezhnye Chelny
The reservoir near Naberezhnye Chelny
Location: Tatarstan , Udmurtia , Bashkortostan ( Russia )
Tributaries: Kama , Belaja , Isch , Ik
Drain: Kama
Larger cities on the shore: Naberezhnye Chelny
Nizhnekamsk Reservoir (Tatarstan)
Nizhnekamsk reservoir
Coordinates 55 ° 53 '24 "  N , 52 ° 48' 0"  E Coordinates: 55 ° 53 '24 "  N , 52 ° 48' 0"  E
Data on the structure
Construction time: ? –1987
Height of the barrier structure : 30 m
Building volume: 23 million m³
Crown length: 2976 m
Power plant output: 1205 MW
Data on the reservoir
Water surface 2580 km²dep1
Storage space 45,000 million m³
Catchment area 358.30 km²
Hydroelectric power station in Naberezhnye Chelny.JPG
The hydroelectric power station at Naberezhnye Chelny

The Nizhnekamsk Reservoir ( Russian: Нижнекамское водохранилище ) is a reservoir on the Kama mainly in the autonomous Republic of Tatarstan in the European part of Russia . It is part of the Volga-Kama cascade .

Geographical location

The reservoir is located in the east of the Eastern European Plain, mainly in Tatarstan , with small northern foothills in Udmurtia . It extends near the city of Nizhnekamsk on the lower reaches of the Volga tributary Kama . In addition to the Kama, Belaja , Ik and Isch, among others , flow into the reservoir .

Data

Reservoir

The reservoir is one of the largest on earth . The water surface is given in various sources as 2,580, 2,699.60 or 3,490  km² . For the storage space one finds the information 45,000 and 13,800 million  .

dam

The as dam acting shut-off , which was completed in 1987, is a dam , combined with a gravity dam . It is a maximum of about 30  m high and has a building volume of 23 million m³ and a crown length of 2976 m.

Hydroelectric power plant

The hydroelectric power station on the Nizhnekamsk Reservoir (Nizhnekamskaja HPP, Russian: Нижнекамская Гидроэлектростанция (Hydro-Elektro-Station) ) supplies the city of Naberezhnye Chelny with electricity. With 16 Kaplan turbines, each with a capacity of 80.5  MW, it generates a maximum of 1,205 MW (possibly also 1,248 or 1,288 MW). This makes it the tenth largest hydropower plant in Russia.

See also

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