Rybinsk Reservoir

Rybinsk Reservoir

Infobox lake
lake_name = Rybinsk Reservoir
image_lake = Rybinsk Reservoir in April.jpg
caption_lake =
image_bathymetry =
caption_bathymetry =
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 =
width =
area = 4,580 km²
depth = 5.6 m
max-depth = 28 m
volume = 25.4 km³
shore =
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 by Rybinsk Hydroelectric Station dam, located on the territories of Tver, Vologda, and Yaroslavl Oblasts. 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. The Volga-Baltic Waterway starts from there. The principal ports are Cherepovets in Vologda Oblast and Vesyegonsk in Tver Oblast.

The construction of the dam in Rybinsk started in 1935. The filling of the reservoir started on April 14, 1941, and continued until 1947. Some 150,000 people had to be resettled elsewhere, and the historic town of Mologa 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

*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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