Bratsk Reservoir

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Bratsk Reservoir
Location Irkutsk Oblast and Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug, Russia
Coordinates 56°15′N 101°45′ECoordinates: 56°15′N 101°45′E
Lake type Hydroelectric reservoir
Surface area 5,470 km²
Water volume 169.3 km³

Bratsk Reservoir or Bratskoye Reservoir (Russian: Бра́тское водохрани́лище) is a reservoir of the Angara River, 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[1].

This earth fill dam was completed in 1967, it is 125 m high, is 4,417 m long, and a highway runs along the top of the dam wall. At the time of its inauguration, the reservoir was the largest artificial lake in the world[citation needed]. Its electrical power capacity is 4,500 MW[1].

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  1. ^ a b Great Soviet Encyclopedia, entry on Братское водохранилище

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