Kama Reservoir

The Kamastausee (Russian Камское водохранилище / Kamskoje wodochranilischtsche ) is a reservoir in Russia at the middle Kama, the largest tributary of the Volga. The reservoir is located west of the Urals in the European part of Russia. It has a storage capacity of 12 billion cubic meters and a water surface of 1915 km ² ( this is also indicated with 1720 km ²). The average depth is 6.3 m, the maximum depth is 30 m. The Kamastausee is part of the so-called Volga - Kama cascade. It is 272 km long and up to 30 km wide.

According to several sources was begun with the construction of the dam in 1948 or 1954. The shut-off ( 58.11478956.327974 ⊙ ), which was completed in 1956, stands above the city of Perm. It is a combination of a dam from Erdschüttmaterial with a gravity dam. There, in a hydroelectric power plant electricity is generated, with a maximum power of 504 MW is achieved. The electricity generated is used for industry of the middle Uralvorlandes. Other purposes of the dam are navigation, water supply and water regulation.

The Kamastausee is sometimes ( водохранилище Russian Пермское / Permskoje wodochranilischtsche ) and Permian reservoir called, to distinguish him from the other two Kamastauseen the Kama cascade, which were later downriver built: the Votkinsk reservoir at Tchaikovsky and Votkinsk on the border of Udmurtia and the Nischnekamsker reservoir ( Lower Kamastausee ) in Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan.

The Perm on the Kama reservoir extends up above the town Solikamsk. Other major villages on the lake are Beresniki and Dobrjanka - both on the left, eastern shore, while on the right, only the western shore towns Ussolje and Tschormos are. The tributaries of the Kama in the area of the reservoir are also dammed at some considerable length, the Chusovaya to just under 100 km or the Wischera in their lower reaches.