Kiev Reservoir

Kiev Reservoir (Ukrainian Київське водосховище / Kyjiwske wodoschowyschtsche; Russian Киевское водохранилище / Kiewskoje wodochranilischtsche ) is the name for an artificial lake near Kiev. He begins 20 km north of Kiev and has an area of 922 km ². In the north, it is fed by the rivers Pripyat and Dnieper River and extends to the border with Belarus.

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

The shut-off is a 41 km long dam, which was at the time of its construction the longest dam in the world. Today in America two longer and two more long, which are still under construction, so that the Kiev dam is now in fifth 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.

Historical Events

During World War II, the wide Dnieper River was an ideal lock that the Red Army inflicted heavy losses in 1943. In Vyshhorod ( Ukr Вишгород ) in the south of the Kiev Sea, near the Desna estuary, there was heavy fighting, as Soviet troops there concentrated their forces. The fighting had the consequence that the crypt of the Holy Martyrs Boris and Gleb, the patron saint of the Kiev Empire, was destroyed. This was built up in 2010