Shapsug Reservoir
The Shapsug Reservoir, also known as the Shapsugskoye Reservoir () is a deactivated reservoir in Takhtamukaysky District of the Republic of Adygea, Russia, located southwest of Krasnodar. It was built between 1940 and 1952Журнал "Огонёк", №49 (2422), 1 декабря 1973 г. С. Ф. Медунов.Русский рис, стр. 4 on the left bank of the Kuban River valley, at the mouth of the Afips River as a part of rice irrigation system and was important to the economy of Krasnodar Krai of Russia. It was named after the Shapsugs—a tribe which has inhabited the area for thousands of years—and is considered a part of historical Shapsugia, which was a part of historical Circassia. With the area of , the reservoir has a rounded shape, with the length of , the width of , and an average depth of . In the southeast there is a small bay. Together with Tshchik Reservoir, they have a combined capacity of , which made it one of the largest irrigation schemes in th ...
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