Nizhnekamsk reservoir
Nizhnekamsk reservoir | |||||||||
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The reservoir near Naberezhnye Chelny | |||||||||
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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 km² | ||||||||
Storage space | 45,000 million m³ | ||||||||
Catchment area | 358.30 km² | ||||||||
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 m³ .
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
- 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