Samara Reservoir
reservoir, Russia
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hydrology of Volga River
- In Volga River: Dams and reservoirs
…reservoirs at Nizhny Novgorod and Samara were both completed in 1957, and the Cheboksary Reservoir, located between them, became operational in 1980. The huge reservoir at Samara, with an area of some 2,300 square miles, is the largest of the Volga reservoir system; it not only impounds the waters of…
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