Zeya Dam | |
Location Map: | Russia Amur Oblast |
Location Map Caption: | Location of the Zeya Dam in Amur Oblast, Russia |
Coordinates: | 53.7692°N 127.3064°W |
Country: | Russia |
Location: | Zeya |
Status: | O |
Construction Began: | 1965 |
Opening: | 1975 |
Owner: | RusHydro |
Dam Height: | 115.50NaN0 |
Dam Length: | 12840NaN0 |
Dam Crosses: | Zeya River |
Spillway Count: | 8 |
Spillway Type: | Surface spillway |
Spillway Capacity: | 11104m3/s |
Res Name: | Zeya Reservoir |
Res Capacity Total: | 68.40NaN0 |
Res Surface: | 24200NaN0 |
Res Max Depth: | 930NaN0 |
Res Max Length: | 2250NaN0 |
Res Max Width: | 400NaN0 |
Plant Turbines: | 4 × 225 MW 2 × 215 MW |
Plant Capacity: | 1,330 MW |
The Zeya Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Zeya River by the town of Zeya, Amur Oblast, Russia, north of the Chinese border. On average the Zeya Hydroelectric Power Station generates 4.91 TWh of electricity per year. It is equipped with 6 hydro-turbines, 4 with capacity of 225 MW and 2 with capacity of 215 MW.
The Zeya Reservoir (Russian: Зейское водохранилище) is located in the upper course of the Zeya, below the southern foothills of the Toko-Stanovik, a subrange of the Stanovoy, to the north of the Tukuringra Range and Dzhagdy Range junction.[1] The reservoir is kept at a regulated depth of . A narrow, 40adj=midNaNadj=mid valley separates the dam water body from the vast surface of the reservoir. The Baikal-Amur Mainline railway runs along the north shore, where a 1100adj=midNaNadj=mid bridge has been constructed.
Settlements on the shore of Zeya Dam include Beregovoy, Khvoyny, Gorny, Verknezeysk, Bomnak and Snezhnogorsk.