Zeya Dam

Zeya Dam
Zeya Dam
	Location of the Zeya Dam in Amur Oblast, Russia
Country	Russia
Location	Zeya
Coordinates	53°46′9″N 127°18′23″E / 53.76917°N 127.30639°E
Status	Operational
Construction began	1965
Opening date	1975
Owner(s)	RusHydro
Dam and spillways
Impounds	Zeya River
Height	115.5 m (379 ft)
Length	1,284 m (4,213 ft)
Spillways	8
Spillway type	Surface spillway
Spillway capacity	11,104 m3/s (392,134 cu ft/s)
Reservoir
Creates	Zeya Reservoir
Total capacity	68.4 km3 (16 cu mi)
Surface area	2,420 km2 (934 sq mi)
Maximum length	225 km (140 mi)
Maximum width	40 km (25 mi)
Maximum water depth	93 m (305 ft)
Power Station
Turbines	4 × 225 MW; 2 × 215 MW
Installed capacity	1,330 MW

The Zeya Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Zeya River by the town of Zeya, Amur Oblast, Russia, north of the Chinese border. On average the Zeya Hydroelectric Power Station 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 (Russian: Зейское водохранилище) is located in the upper course of the Zeya, below the southern foothills of the Toko-Stanovik, a subrange of the Stanovoy, to the north of the Tukuringra Range and Dzhagdy Range junction.^[1] The reservoir is kept at a regulated depth of 93 metres (305 ft). A narrow, 40-kilometre-long (25 mi) valley separates the dam water body from the vast surface of the reservoir. The Baikal-Amur Mainline railway runs along the north shore, where a 1,100-metre-long (3,600 ft) bridge has been constructed.

Settlements on the shore of Zeya Dam include Beregovoy, Khvoyny, Gorny, Verknezeysk, Bomnak and Snezhnogorsk.