The Zeya Dam is a concrete gravity

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on the

Zeya River The Zeya (; from indigenous Evenki word "djee" (blade); zh, 结雅; mnc, m= , Mölendroff: jingkiri bira) is a northern, left tributary of the Amur in Amur Oblast, Russia. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . The average flow of the rive ...

by the town of Zeya,

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, north of the

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border. On average the Zeya

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generates 4.91 TWh of electricity per year. It is equipped with 6 hydro-turbines, 4 with capacity of 225 MW and 2 with capacity of 215 MW. The Zeya Reservoir () is located in the upper course of the Zeya, below the southern foothills of the

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, a subrange of the Stanovoy, to the north of the Tukuringra Range and

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junction.

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The reservoir is kept at a regulated depth of . A narrow, valley separates the dam water body from the vast surface of the

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. The Baikal-Amur Mainline railway runs along the north shore, where a bridge has been constructed. Settlements on the shore of Zeya Dam include Beregovoy, Khvoyny, Gorny, Verknezeysk,

Bomnak Bomnak () is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Zeysky District of Amur Oblast, Russia, located on the northern bank of Zeya Reservoir. Transportation A local road leads west to Gorny and Verkhnezeysk. Climate Bomnak has a dry-winter subarctic ...

and Snezhnogorsk. File:ZeyaHPP 10.jpg, Zeya Dam at night File:ZeyaHPP 01.jpg File:ZeyaHPP 05.jpg, Spillway dam File:ZeyaHPP 04.jpg, Zeya Dam building File:ZeyaHPP 08.jpg, The machine room File:ZeyaHPP 03.jpg, Power transformers File:ZeyaHPP 07.jpg, Generator rotor File:ZeyaHPP 09.jpg, Inside the spiral chamber of the turbine File:ZeyaHPP 06.jpg, Inside the Dam

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