The Great Stavropol Canal (russian: Большой Ставропольский канал) is an
irrigation
Irrigation (also referred to as watering) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns. Irrigation has been a key aspect of agriculture for over 5,000 years and has been devel ...
canal in
Stavropol Krai in
Russia
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. It starts at a dam at
Ust-Dzheguta
Ust-Dzheguta (russian: Усть-Джегута; krc, Джёгетей Аягъы, ''Cögetey Ayağı''; Abaza: ; Kabardian: ) is a town and the administrative center of Ust-Dzhegutinsky District of the Karachay–Cherkess Republic, Russia, lo ...
on the upper
Kuban River
The Kuban; Circassian: Псыжъ, ''Psyẑ'' or Псыжь, ''Psyź'' ; abq, Къвбина, ''Q̇vbina'' ; Karachay–Balkar: Къобан, ''Qoban''; Nogai: Кобан, ''Qoban'') is a river in Russia that flows through the Western Cauca ...
and leads water northeast via the
Kalaus River to the
Chogray Reservoir
The Chogray Reservoir (russian: Чограйское водохранилище, ''Chograyskoye vodokhranilishche'') is an artificial reservoir on the East Manych River on the border of Stavropol Krai and Kalmykia in southern Russia.
The reservoi ...
on the
Manych River. It is 480 km long, and its maximum flow is 75 m³/s. Construction work started in 1957 and continued to 2006. In 1970s, the construction was under then First Secretary of the Stavropol kraikom,
Mikhail Gorbachev's supervision.
See also
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Nevinnomyssk Canal
{{coord missing, Stavropol Krai
Canals in Russia
Buildings and structures in Stavropol Krai
Transport in Stavropol Krai