Bratsk Reservoir
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| Bratsk Reservoir | |
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| Location | Irkutsk Oblast, Russia |
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| Lake type | Hydroelectric reservoir |
| Surface area | 5,470 km² |
| Water volume | 169 km³ |
Bratsk Reservoir or Bratskoye Reservoir (Russian: Бра́тское водохрани́лище) is a reservoir of the Angara, 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 5,470 km² and a maximum volume of 169.27 billion cubic meters.
This earth fill dam was completed in 1967, it is 124 m high, is 4,417 m long, and a highway runs along the top of the dam wall.
The electrical power capacity is 4,500 MW.
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