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Dossier #41 · GRanD 4363

Gorky

🇷🇺Russia · Volga River · near Nizhny Novgorod

Built 1955 · Dam · data quality: Fair

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Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
32 m
Crest length
293 m
Reservoir capacity
8.7 km³
Reservoir area
1,332.1 km²
Average depth
6.5 m
Catchment
230,390 km²
Avg discharge
1,460,197 L/s
Elevation
79 masl
Degree of regulation
18.9 %

Notes

Built 1955

Provenance

Record 41 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 56.6651, 43.3852.