Bratsk Reservoir

Bratsk Reservoir

Infobox lake
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location = Irkutsk Oblast
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type = Hydroelectric reservoir
inflow = Angara River
outflow = Angara River
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area = 5,470 km²
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Bratsk Reservoir ( _ru. Бра́тское водохрани́лище, "Bratskoye Reservoir") is a reservoir of the Angara River, located in Irkutsk Oblast and Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is named after the city of Bratsk, the largest city adjacent to the reservoir. It has a surface area of convert|5470|km2|sqmi|0 and a maximum volume of 169.27 billion cubic metres (5,977.71 billion cubic feet)."Great Soviet Encyclopedia", entry on [http://dict.yandex.ru/art.xml?art=bse/00010/11400.htm&encpage=bse&mrkp=http%3A//hghltd.yandex.com/yandbtm%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A//encycl.yandex.ru/texts/bse/00010/11400.htm%26text%3D%25E1%25F0%25E0%25F2%25F1%25EA%25EE%25E5%2B%25E2%25EE%25E4%25EE%25F5%25F0%25E0%25ED%25E8%25EB%25E8%25F9%25E5%26reqtext%3D%2528%25E1%25F0%25E0%25F2%25F1%25EA%25EE%25E5%253A%253A235820%2B%2526%2B%25E2%25EE%25E4%25EE%25F5%25F0%25E0%25ED%25E8%25EB%25E8%25F9%25E5%253A%253A349237%2529//6%26%26isu%3D2 Братское водохранилище] ]

This earth fill dam of the Bratsk hydroelectric plant was completed in 1967. It is convert|125|m|ft|0 high, convert|4417|m|ft|0 long, and a highway runs along the top of the dam wall. At the time of its inauguration, the reservoir was the largest artificial lake in the world. [George St. George. "Siberia: The New Frontier". D. McKay Co, 1969. Page 147.] Its electrical power capacity is 4,500 MW. The epic construction of the reservoir is the subject of a large eponymous poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

ee also

*Reservoirs and dams in the Commonwealth of Independent States

References

External links

* [http://lkirchner.de/kodar/kodar.html Description and photo]


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