Bratsk Reservoir

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Bratsk Reservoir (Russian: Бра́тское водохрани́лище, Bratskoye Reservoir) is a reservoir of the Angara River, located in Irkutsk Oblast and Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is named after the city of Bratsk, the largest city adjacent to the reservoir. It has a surface area of 5,470 square kilometres (2,112 sq mi) and a maximum volume of 169.27 billion cubic metres (5,977.71 billion cubic feet).[1]

This earth fill dam of the Bratsk hydroelectric plant was completed in 1967. It is 125 metres (410 ft) high and 4,417 metres (14,491 ft) long. The Baikal Amur Mainline railroad runs along the top of the dam. At the time of its inauguration, the reservoir was the largest artificial lake in the world.[2] Its electrical power capacity is 4,500 MW.[1] The epic construction of the reservoir is the subject of a large eponymous poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko.