The Kremenchuk Reservoir ( Ukrainian : Кременчуцьке водосховище , Kremenchuts’ke Vodoskhovyshche ) is a reservoir on the Dnieper river in the Ukrainian oblasts of Poltava , Cherkasy , and Kirovohrad . Named after the city of Kremenchuk , the reservoir is primarily used for irrigation, flood control , fishing, and transport from the ports of Cherkasy and Svitlovodsk . It is the largest reservoir on the Dnieper river, with a length of 149 km, a width of 28 km, an area of 2,250 km, an average depth of six meters, and a volume of 13.5 km.
3-585: The reservoir's water level is maintained by the dam of the Kremenchuk Hydroelectric Power Plant , built between 1954 and 1959. Its filling resulted in the submersion of 23 populated places in the Novoheorhivsk Raion, including Kryliv and Novoheorhivsk . The Sula River flows into the reservoir, forming a delta with numerous islands. This article about a location in Ukraine
6-557: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kremenchuk Hydroelectric Power Plant The Kremenchuk Hydroelectric Power Plant is a run-of-river power plant on the Dnieper River just upstream of Kremenchuk in Svitlovodsk , Ukraine . The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and navigation . It is the third dam in the Dnieper cascade and creates
9-534: The largest reservoir on the river. The dam has an associated lock and a power station with an installed capacity of 624 megawatts (837,000 hp). Construction on the dam began in May 1954, the reservoir began to fill in October 1959, the last generator was commissioned in 1960 and the dam and power plant were inaugurated in 1961. It is operated by Ukrhydroenergo . On the morning of October 31, 2022, Russian forces launched
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