- Rybinsk Reservoir
Infobox lake
lake_name = Rybinsk Reservoir
image_lake = Rybinsk Reservoir in April.jpg
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coords = coord|58|22|N|38|26|E|region:RU_type:waterbody|display=inline,title
type =Hydroelectric reservoir
inflow = Volga, Sheksna, Mologa
outflow =
catchment =
basin_countries =Russia
length =
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area = 4,580 km²
depth = 5.6 m
max-depth = 28 m
volume = 25.4 km³
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elevation = 102.4 m
islands =
cities =Cherepovets Vesyegonsk Rybinsk Reservoir ( _ru. Рыбинское водохранилище, "Rybinskoye vodokhranilishche"), informally called the Rybinsk Sea, is a vast water reservoir on the
Volga River and its tributaries Sheksna and Mologa, formed byRybinsk Hydroelectric Station dam, located on the territories of Tver, Vologda, andYaroslavl Oblast s. At the time of its construction, it was the largest man-made body of water on Earth. [Paul R. Josephson. "Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World". Island Press, 2002. ISBN 1559637773. Page 31.] It is the northernmost point of the Volga. TheVolga-Baltic Waterway starts from there. The principal ports areCherepovets in Vologda Oblast andVesyegonsk in Tver Oblast.The construction of the dam in
Rybinsk started in1935 . The filling of the reservoir started onApril 14 ,1941 , and continued until1947 . Some 150,000 people had to be resettled elsewhere, and the historic town ofMologa in Yaroslavl Oblast along with 663 villages have completely disappeared under water. As the time goes by, however, it has been increasingly viewed as a typical sample of Stalinist voluntarism. Today the dam is less important for electric power supply (output is 346 MW) than it used to be, and the ecological damage caused by the reservoir is being reassessed.ee also
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Reservoirs and dams in Russia and CIS References
External links
* [http://samara.orthodoxy.ru/Smi/Npg/007_5.html Russian Atlantis: What lies underneath the Rybinsk Sea] (in Russian)
* [http://www.leushino.ru/ Webpage of the Leushino Monastery, now submerged under the waters of the Rybinsk Sea] (in Russian)
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