Zeya Dam Explained

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.

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  1. [Google Earth]