Krasno-Oskol Reservoir

The Tscherwonooskilsker Reservoir (Ukrainian Червонооскільське водосховище; Russian Червонооскольское водохранилище ) or Krasno- Oskol Reservoir called Reservoir is located in eastern Ukraine on the lower reaches of the Oskol in the Kharkiv Oblast and in part in the Donetsk Oblast.

The reservoir is 75 m high and has a surface area of ​​122.6 km ². Its capacity is 435.1 million cubic meters of water, and its length is 84.6 km. The lake has an average width of 1.6 km, and the maximum width is 4.0 km. He is an average of 3.88 m deep with a maximum depth of 10.5 m.

The dam and the hydroelectric plant was built in the years 1957-1958 10 km upstream of the mouth of the Seversky Donets in Oskol, below the village Tscherwonyj Oskil (Ukrainian Червоний Оскіл ) after which it is named applied. While supplies the lake over the hydroelectric plant energy, but mainly it was built to during the summer months for a sufficient water level in the Seversky Donets -Donbass Canal - to ensure (Ukrainian Канал Сіверський Донець Донбас ).