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 of electricity per year. It is equipped with six hydro-turbines, four with capacity of and two with capacity of .
Overview The Zeya Reservoir () 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 junction of the Tukuringra and Dzhagdy ranges.Google Earth The reservoir is kept at a regulated depth of . A narrow, 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 bridge has been constructed.
Settlements on the shore of Zeya Dam include Beregovoy, Khvoyny, Gorny, Verknezeysk, Bomnak and Snezhnogorsk.
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List of conventional hydroelectric power stations List of power stations in Russia
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