Burey reservoir
Description:
In the Amur region of the Khabarovsk Territory on the Bureya River there is a Bureisk reservoir. Its area at a normal retaining level is 750 square kilometers, the length is 234 kilometers, and the width is 5 kilometers. The total capacity of the reservoir is 20.94 cubic kilometers, and its height above sea level is 256 meters.
The reservoir is formed by the dam of the Bureyskaya HPP, located near the village of Talakan. It was built and put into operation in 1979-2009. Soon, downstream, the Novobureyskaya GES will be created, thanks to the construction of a new dam near the village of the same name.