The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Nurek Reservoir

a reservoir formed by the dam of the Nurek Hydroelectric Power Plant on the Vakhsh River in the Tadzhik SSR. Filling of the reservoir began in 1972. Area, 98 sq km; volume, 10.5 cu km; length, 70 km; maximum width, 1 km; average depth, 107 m. The level of the reservoir fluctuates within a range of 53 m. It provides seasonal regulation of the water flow. Regulation of the flow of the Vakhsh and a 300-m rise in the water level will make possible additional irrigation of about 1 million hectares of fertile land in the Karshi and Kzyl-Kum steppes and on the Dangara Plateau, and also improvement of navigation conditions on the lower Vakhsh and the Amu Darya.

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The Nurek Dam is a man-made embankment on a deep gorge along the River Vakhsh.

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That will make it the tallest dam of any kind in the world, surpassing the 300-meter earthen Nurek Dam in Tajikistan and the 285meter concrete Grande Dixence Dam in Switzerland.

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Power for Tursunzade arises at the Nurek dam on the Vakhsh River, 160 km to the north where there are ten turbines of 300 MW each, or a combined installed capacity of 3,000 MW.

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The objectives of the Nurek Hydropower Rehabilitation Project for Tajikistan are to rehabilitate and restore the generating capacity of nine power generating units at Nurek hydropower plant, improve their efficiency, and enhance the safety of the Nurek dam.

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Tajikistan's Vakhsh River is already home to the next contender and the largest earth-filled embankment dam, the Nurek Dam, which was completed in 1980 when Tajikistan was still a republic of the Soviet Union

Salini Group begins work on worldAEs tallest dam

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