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The Kakhovka Hydroelectricity

The Kakhovka Hydroelectricity

Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant is among the ten largest hydroelectric power station in Ukraine and is the sixth step in the cascade of hydraulic structures on the Dnieper River. HPP reservoir and enables to supply electricity and drinking water dire need for water Ukrainian regions - Kherson and Mykolaiv region.

For construction and maintenance of hydropower plants was built city New Kakhovka on the site of the village key. Kakhovka HPS is a strategic object of special importance and is protected by the National Guard. Its territory is forbidden to make photo and video.

History of the Kakhovka HPS

Construction of hydroelectric power plant was launched in 1950. The first unit started five years later, and the last was put into operation in a year later, at the same time formed Kakhovka reservoir .

Kakhovka HPP made it possible to develop the entire region economically, has provided electricity and drinking water to the entire south-east of Ukraine. The price for this was also paid considerable - 257 thousand hectares of exceptional Dnieper smoothly, thousands of hectares of arable land and a lot of unexplored archaeological and historical monuments have disappeared forever in the waters of Kakhovka sea..

According to one legend, the water artificial sea is the tomb of the famous in the legends and sung in folk songs of Zaporizhzhya Sich Cossack chieftain Ivan Sirko, the invincible warrior-mage characterniki owning ancient knowledge and knows how to turn around a gray wolf.

In 2006, work was completed on the Kakhovka HPP modernization and construction of new housing buildings and reconstructed road coverage. To modernize the equipment was purchased from leading European companies - suppliers of products for power engineering and electrical engineering. Finance the project the World Bank, the Government of Switzerland and Canada.

Kakhovka HPP in figures

Kakhovskaya dam consists of a machine room, the spillway dam gravity length 447 m, an earth dam with a total length 3273 m, twin-water gateway, as well as rail and road crossings, crossing the territory of the construction. The total installed capacity of 351 MW station.

The parameters and characteristics of the Kakhovka hydroelectric:

  • waterfront length of waterworks 3650 m, the maximum pressure of 16.5 m;
  • maximum water capacity of 21 400 cubic meters. m / sec;
  • full reservoir capacity of 18.2 cubic meters;
  • mirror area of ​​the reservoir 2 155 sq.m.

Interesting Facts

  • In the construction of the Kakhovka reservoir flooded 90 villages and historic area of ​​the Great Meadows, symbol of Cossack security and freedom.
  • Each year, the water reservoir blur from 1 to 3 meters of the coastline.
  • We worked on the construction of about 12 thousand specialists, a huge amount of equipment. Equipment supplied Kharkov and Zaporozhye plant.
  • In 2000, the Kakhovka HPP named after PS Neporozhny, chief engineer on the construction of the Kakhovka HPS.

How to get there

Kakhovka HPP is the crossroads of several national road and rail routes. From Zaporozhye Dnipro, Kiev can be reached in Kherson, Mykolayiv, Odessa, moved through the dam of the Kakhovka reservoir. From any city of Ukraine traveling to the Crimea, can be reached by driving through the Kakhovka HPP and New Kakhovka.

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