Cheboksary Reservoir

Cheboksary Reservoir (Russian: Чебоксарское водохранилище, Chuvash: Шупашкар шыв усравĕ) is an artificial lake in the central part of the Volga River and formed by the Cheboksary Dam in Novocheboksarsk.[1][2]

A surface area of Cheboksary Reservoir is 2190 km², max width is 16 km, max depth is 35 m.

The largest cities on the Reservoir are Nizhny Novgorod, Cheboksary and Kozmodemyansk.

Notes

  1. "The State of Benthic Communities and Water Quality Evaluation in the Cheboksary Reservoir". researchgate.net. Retrieved 17 March 2014.

Coordinates: 56°18′00″N 46°42′53″E / 56.30000°N 46.71472°E / 56.30000; 46.71472


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