The Kakhovka Reservoir (, ''Kakhovs′ke vodoskhovyshche'') is a water
reservoir
A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation.
Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contr ...
on the
Dnieper
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The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine an ...
River in
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inva ...
. It was created in 1956, when the
Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant
The Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station is a run-of-river power plant on the Dnieper River in Nova Kakhovka, Ukraine. Nova Kakhovka is a port city located on the reservoir's southern bank. The primary purposes of the dam are hydroelectric power gene ...
was built. It is one of several reservoirs in the
Dnieper reservoir cascade.
Geography
The reservoir covers a total area of 2,155 square kilometres in the
Kherson
Kherson (, ) is a port city of Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located on the Black Sea and on the Dnieper River, Kherson is the home of a major ship-building industry and is a regional economic centre. I ...
,
Zaporizhzhia
Zaporizhzhia ( uk, Запоріжжя) or Zaporozhye (russian: Запорожье) is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia has a populat ...
, and
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ( uk, Дніпропетро́вська о́бласть, translit=Dnipropetrovska oblast), also referred to as Dnipropetrovshchyna ( uk, Дніпропетро́вщина), is an oblast (province) of central-eastern Ukr ...
s of Ukraine. It is 240 km long and up to 23 km wide. The depth varies from 3 to 26 metres and averages 8.4 meters. The total water volume is 18.2 km³.
It is used mainly to supply hydroelectric stations, the Krasnoznamianka Irrigation System, the Kakhovka Irrigation System, industrial plants such as the 5.7 GW
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, freshwater fish farms, the
North Crimean Canal and the
Dnieper–Kryvyi Rih Canal.
Its creation formed a deep-water route for ships to sail up the Dnieper.
Gallery
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See also
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List of reservoirs by volume
The classification of a reservoir by volume is not as straightforward as it may seem. As the name implies, water is held in reserve by a reservoir so it can serve a purpose. For example, in Thailand, reservoirs tend to store water from the wet s ...
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Energy in Ukraine
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Renewable energy in Ukraine
References
External links
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Reservoirs in Ukraine
Geography of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Geography of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Geography of Kherson Oblast
Reservoirs built in the Soviet Union
1956 establishments in the Soviet Union
1956 establishments in Ukraine
Infrastructure completed in 1956
Reservoirs of the Dnieper