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Bratsk Reservoir
Location	Irkutsk Oblast
Coordinates	56°15′N 101°45′E / 56.25, 101.75Coordinates: 56°15′N 101°45′E / 56.25, 101.75
Lake type	Hydroelectric reservoir
Primary inflows	Angara River
Primary outflows	Angara River
Basin countries	Russia
Surface area	5,470 km²
Water volume	169.3 km³

Bratsk Reservoir (Russian: Бра́тское водохрани́лище, Bratskoye Reservoir) is a reservoir of the Angara River, located in Irkutsk Oblast and Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is named after the city of Bratsk, the largest city adjacent to the reservoir. It has a surface area of 5,470 square kilometres (2,112 sq mi) and a maximum volume of 169.27 billion cubic metres (5,977.71 billion cubic feet).¹

This earth fill dam of the Bratsk hydroelectric plant was completed in 1967. It is 125 metres (410 ft) high, 4,417 metres (14,491 ft) long, and a highway runs along the top of the dam wall. At the time of its inauguration, the reservoir was the largest artificial lake in the world.² Its electrical power capacity is 4,500 MW.¹ The epic construction of the reservoir is the subject of a large eponymous poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

See also

• Reservoirs and dams in the Commonwealth of Independent States

References

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