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 reservoir has partly flooded the Mari Depression.[3]
The largest cities on the Reservoir are Nizhny Novgorod, Cheboksary and Kozmodemyansk.
Notes
- Mineeva, N. M.; Abramova, N. N. (2009). "Phytoplankton Pigments as Ecological State Indices of the Cheboksary Reservoir". Water Resources. 36 (5): 560–567. doi:10.1134/S009780780905008X.
- Nazarova, L. B.; Semenov, V. F.; Sabirov, R. M.; Efimov, I. Yu. (2004). "The State of Benthic Communities and Water Quality Evaluation in the Cheboksary Reservoir". Water Resources. 31 (3): 316–322. doi:10.1023/B:WARE.0000028702.74325.c5.
- Марийская низменность, Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M, 1969-1978.
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