Argazi Reservoir () is a

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, created on the Miass River (

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's basin) in

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) in 1946. The Argazi Lake has become a part of the Argazi Reservoir ever since. The reservoir has a surface area of 102 km² and a water volume of 0,65 cubic km. Its length is 11 km, average depth - 6,5 m. The Argazi Reservoir was created for the benefit of energetics and water supply. It also performs perennial flow regulation.

Name

Argazi Reservoir name is taken from the Bashkirs (), the indigenous inhabitants of these places.

Reservoir in culture

There is Bashkir folk song about Argazi lake () later became a reservoir. Bashkir folk song БАШҠОРТ ХАЛЫҠ ЙЫРҘАРЫ
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References

{{reflist Reservoirs in Russia Reservoirs in Chelyabinsk Oblast