Kremenchuk Reservoir

The Krementschuker Reservoir (Ukrainian: Кременчуцьке водосховище ) is one of the six major Ukrainian reservoirs on the Dnieper River.

At the lake borders the Central Ukrainian oblasts Cherkassy, ​​Kirovograd and Poltava.

The Krementschuker reservoir covers 2252 km ² and contains about 13.5 km ³ of water. Its length is 149 km with a maximum width of 28 km. At the deepest point, the water has a depth of 28 m. It has a high importance for fishing. In addition, located on the shore of the lake in the area of ​​Rajons Hlobyne large fish farms.

The dam of the lake is about 15 km west of the city of Kremenchug near the city Switlowodsk. Here there is a large hydroelectric plant. On the crown of the dam runs a public road. Was built the dam between 1959 and 1961.

As part of the impoundment of the reservoir Krementschuker many residents had to be moved, it was, inter alia, the city Nowogeorgijiwsk flooded. Most apartments in new schedule based on the banks of the dammed lake built by the Soviet state settlements.

In the dam rivers flow Sula and Tjasmyn. Major cities on Krementschuker reservoir are the Oblasthauptstadt Cherkassy and the city Switlowodsk.

• Reservoir in Ukraine
• Reservoir in Europe
• Dnepr river system
• Dam in the Ukraine
• Storage power plant in Europe
• Hydroelectric power plant in the Ukraine
• Built in the 1960s
• Kirovohrad Oblast
• Poltava Oblast
• Cherkasy Oblast