The Cuciurgan Reservoir ( ro, Cuciurgan;

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: ''Kuchurhan'') is a large water

reservoir A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contro ...

, built on

Kuchurhan River The Kuchurhan ( ua, Кучурган; ro, Cuciurgan) is a river in Eastern Europe. It is a tributary of the Turunchuk (a branch of the Dniester) which begins on the Podolian Upland in Ukraine. It then flows SSE and forms part of the border betw ...

on the state border between

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

and

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. The lake is located in the south-eastern part of the Left Bank of the Dniester of Moldova (''de facto'' under

Transnistria Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as a part of Moldova. Transnistria controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester riv ...

), on the border with the

Odesa Oblast Odesa Oblast ( uk, Оде́ська о́бласть, translit=Odeska oblast), also referred to as Odeshchyna ( uk, Оде́щина) is an oblast (province) of southwestern Ukraine, located along the northern coast of the Black Sea. Its administr ...

of Ukraine and its water resources are shared between the two countries. It was created by damming the

just north of where it flows into the

Dniester The Dniester, ; rus, Дне́стр, links=1, Dnéstr, ˈdⁿʲestr; ro, Nistru; grc, Τύρᾱς, Tyrās, ; la, Tyrās, la, Danaster, label=none, ) ( ,) is a transboundary river in Eastern Europe. It runs first through Ukraine and th ...

. The reservoir is 20 km long and has a width of 3 km at the side of the dam. It has a total water surface area of 27.2 square kilometers. Before construction of the dam, there was already a liman in the southern part of the Kuchurhan river valley. Lake Cuciurgani is a popular resort area for the inhabitants of nearby

Tiraspol Tiraspol or Tirișpolea ( ro, Tiraspol, Moldovan Cyrillic: Тираспол, ; russian: Тира́споль, ; uk, Тирасполь, Tyraspol') is the capital of Transnistria (''de facto''), a breakaway state of Moldova, where it is the th ...

, the capital of Transnistria. The

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burning

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Dnestrovsc Dnestrovsc ( ro, Nistrovsc; russian: Днестрóвск, Dnestrovsk; uk, Дністровськ, Dnistrovs'k) is a town in southern Moldova, near the border with Ukraine. It is at the shores of the Cuciurgan Reservoir and is home to the Cuciur ...

utilizes water from the reservoir. There is no

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power plant associated with the dam.

References

External links

Map of Transnistria

,

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(2007)
''Transboundary Diagnostic Study for the Dniester River Basin''

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/UNECE Project: Transboundary Co-operation and Sustainable Management of the Dniester River (November 2005) Geography of Transnistria Lakes of Moldova Reservoirs in Ukraine Moldova–Ukraine border International lakes of Europe Estuaries of Ukraine Estuaries of the Black Sea Landforms of Odesa Oblast {{BlackSea-stub