Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Station

The Irkutsk Reservoir (Russian Иркутское водохранилище / Irkutskoje wodochranilischtsche ) in Irkutsk Oblast in Russia's Irkutsk ( Siberia; Asia ) is a dam on the Angara.

Geographical location

The Irkutsk Reservoir is located just northwest of the southwest end of Lake Baikal, just below the outflow of the Angara from this lake. To the northeast of the reservoir extend the southwestern foothills of the Baikal Mountains in the west rise the eastern foothills of the Ostsajans. His shut-off and power plant are at the southeastern edge of the urban area of ​​Irkutsk.

Dam, reservoir and power plant

By about 2.5 km long dam of the Irkutsk Reservoir, which has around 4.6 billion cubic meters of storage capacity, the Angara approximately 28 m in height jammed maximum, and the river on almost 60 km of track to just before the Baikal back - without whose water level of influence. The shut-off consists of a 44 m high Erdschüttdamm combined with integrated gravity dam. The built- in wall water power plant, which was part of the planned development of the Angara - Yenisey region, was built from 1950 to 1959 and provides 660 MW.

According to other sources of Lake Baikal is dammed by the dam by 1.4 m or even to 6 m. The storage volume including the addition dammed Lake Baikal is then 45.8 billion m³.

Gallery

The dam of the reservoir