Kuybyshev Reservoir

The Kuibyshev Reservoir (Russian Куйбышевское водохранилище / Kuibyschewskoje wodochranilischtsche ) is a reservoir on the Volga River in the European part of Russia. He is part of the so-called Volga - Kama cascade. Sometimes the lake is today ( Samarskoje wodochranilischtsche водохранилище Russian Самарское / ) also called Samara Reservoir; he was, however, in contrast to the city of Samara not officially rückbenannt from Kuibyshev.

The Kuibyshev Reservoir, which extends along the middle reaches of the Volga River about between Kazan and Tolyatti on approximately 550 km in length, is about 6450 km ², with which he is geographically the largest reservoir in Europe and the third largest in the world at 58 billion cubic meters of storage space. In the area of ​​Mündungsarms the Kama is the lake that is 4.5 km wide at the dam, depending on the measuring direction is about 30 to 40 km wide. He was dammed 1955-1957.

The built in Schiguljowsk Erdschüttdamm ( ⊙ 53.42717949.478116 ) of approximately 162 million cubic meters of earth material, approximately 7.036 million m³ of reinforced concrete and numerous vertically arranged sheet piling is to seal, rises at an average of 27 m to 44.5 m ( ie the maximum depth of the lake ) on the bed of the river Volga. In the dam, a 600 m long and 80 m wide building a hydroelectric power plant was built, which was completed in 1958. The total capacity of 2315 MW generated in the 20 turbines (17 MW and 115 times after rebuilding 3 x 120 MW) is mainly used for the power supply industry in Samara and its surroundings. The water of the Volga is also used for irrigation. In addition, a 1.1 km long weir for spillway has been integrated into the dam.