The Verkhnetulomskoye Reservoir (russian: Верхнетуломское водохранилище) is a large

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 ...

on the

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, Murmansk Oblast,

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. It impounds the river Tuloma. It was constructed in 1964-1965, and has an area of 745 km².Верхнетуломское водохранилище

Great Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...

Since the construction of the reservoir, the former Lake Notozero (russian: Нотозеро; sms, Njuõʹttjäuʹrr; sme, Njuohttejávri) has been submerged.

References

Bodies of water of Murmansk Oblast RVerkhnetulomskoye Reservoirs in Russia {{MurmanskOblast-geo-stub