Rybinsk Reservoir (Рыбинское водохранилище, IPA:[ˈrɨbʲɪnskəɪvədəxrɐˈnʲilʲɪɕə]), informally called the Rybinsk Sea, is a water reservoir on the Volga River and its tributaries Sheksna and Mologa, formed by Rybinsk Hydroelectric Station dam, located in the Tver, Vologda, and Yaroslavl Oblasts. At the time of its construction, it was the largest man-made body of water on Earth.[1] It is the northernmost point of the Volga. The Volga–Baltic Waterway starts from there. The principal ports are Cherepovets in Vologda Oblast and Vesyegonsk in Tver Oblast.
The construction of the dam in Rybinsk started in 1935. The filling of the reservoir started on April 14, 1941, and continued until 1947. Some 150,000 people had to be resettled elsewhere, and the historic town of Mologa in Yaroslavl Oblast along with 663 villages have completely disappeared under water. Today the dam is less important for hydroelectric power supply (output is 346 MW) than it used to be.
^Paul R. Josephson. Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World. Island Press, 2002. ISBN 1-55963-777-3. Page 31.
RybinskReservoir (Рыбинское водохранилище, IPA: [ˈrɨbʲɪnskəɪ vədəxrɐˈnʲilʲɪɕə]), informally called the Rybinsk Sea, is a water reservoir on the Volga...
Rybinsk (Russian: Рыбинск, IPA: [ˈrɨbʲɪnsk]) is the second-largest city of Yaroslavl Oblast in Russia. It lies at the confluence of the Volga and Sheksna...
rivers Mologa and Volga, but now submerged under the waters of the RybinskReservoir. Mologa existed at least since the 12th century. It was a part of...
south and subsequently turns east. It joins the northern part of the RybinskReservoir of the Volga near the city of Cherepovets. Cherepovets, as well as...
had a catchment area of ca 39,000 km2 before the creation of the RybinskReservoir in 1947. The 184 km long Suda originates from the confluence of 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...
maximal width of 17 km, and average depth of 10.1 m. It is the third largest reservoir on Volga in Russia, after the Kuybyshev and Rybinskreservoirs. v t e...
Sheksna River (a tributary of the Volga River) and on the shores of the RybinskReservoir. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 312,310, making it the...
A reservoir (/ˈrɛzərvwɑːr/; from French réservoir [ʁezɛʁvwaʁ]) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for...
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major dams and hydroelectric stations were built at Uglich and Rybinsk. The RybinskReservoir, filled between 1941 and 1947, is one of the largest in Europe...
to Rybinsk at the northernmost point of the Volga River. Today the entire route is canalized and the lower Sheksna is part of the RybinskReservoir. The...
Lake Beloye, and Lake Vozhe) and the fifth lake (also behind the RybinskReservoir). The area of the basin of the lake is 14,700 square kilometres (5...
power-plants near Moscow, Gorky, Tula, Stalinogorsk and under the RybinskReservoir, as well as to attack certain substations, transmission lines and...
100 sq mi). The river terminates in the RybinskReservoir of the Volga. Before the construction of the RybinskReservoir the Sogozha was a tributary of the...
length of the reservoir dam is 1,100 metres (3,600 ft), the dam complex includes 2 locks. The lower pound of the dam is the RybinskReservoir. The only two...
District (Rivers of the Rybinskreservoir basin). The river basin of the river is the (Upper) Volga to the Kuibyshev reservoir (without the Oka basin)...
Ladybower Reservoir The Tignes Dam flooded the village of Tignes in France, displacing 78 families Mologa in Russia was flooded by the creation of Rybinsk reservoir...
and Breytovsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast, on the shores of the RybinskReservoir of the Volga River. It was established July 18, 1945 to study the...
Mologa is a town in Yaroslavl Oblast that was flooded to create the RybinskReservoir. Neftegorsk is a former town in Sakhalin Oblast that was almost destroyed...
Zavolzhye and filled in 1955 – 1957. It spans for 430 km from the dam of Rybinsk to the dam of Gorodets through Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Ivanovo and Nizhny...
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