Nizhnekamsk Reservoir

The Nischnekamsker Reservoir (Russian Нижнекамское водохранилище ) is a reservoir on the Kama predominantly in the autonomous republic of Tatarstan in the European part of Russia. It is part of the Volga - Kama cascade.

Geographical location

The reservoir is located in the eastern part of the East European Plain predominantly in Tatarstan, where small northern foothills are in Udmurtia. It extends in the city of Nizhnekamsk in the lower reaches of the Volga - Kama inflow. In the reservoir open next to the Kama among other Belaya, Ik and Ish.

Data

Reservoir

The reservoir is one of the largest of the Earth. The water surface is given in different sources with 2580, 2699.60, or 3490 km ². For the storage space you will find the details of 45,000 and 13,800 million cubic meters.

Dam

The dam serves as a shut-off, which was completed in 1987, is a dam, combined with a gravity dam. There is a maximum of about 30 m high and has a building volume of 23 million cubic meters and a crest length of 2976 m.

Hydroelectric power station

The hydroelectric power plant at the dam Nischnekamsker ( Nischnekamskaja GES or Nischnekamskaja HPP ⊙ 55.69962252.279299 ) provides, among other things, the city Naberezhnye Chelny with electricity. It generates 16 Kaplan turbines, each with a maximum of 80.5 MW capacity 1,205 MW (possibly 1,248 or 1,288 MW). This makes it the tenth largest hydroelectric power plant in Russia.

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