Zainsk Reservoir or Zay Reservoir (russian: Заинское водохранилище, tt-Cyrl, Зәй сусаклагычы, translit=Zäy susaqlağıçı) is a
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 ...
of the
Zay River
The Zay (russian: Зай; tt-Cyrl, Зәй, ''Zäy'') is a river in Russian Federation, a left-bank tributary of the Kama. It is long, and its drainage basin covers .[Zainsk
Zainsk (russian: Заи́нск; tt-Cyrl, Зәй, ''Zäy'') is a town in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the Stepnoy Zay River (Kama's tributary), east of Kazan. Population:
Geography
Zainsk Reservoir, along the Zay River, is l ...]
,
Tatarstan
The Republic of Tatarstan (russian: Республика Татарстан, Respublika Tatarstan, p=rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə tətɐrˈstan; tt-Cyrl, Татарстан Республикасы), or simply Tatarstan (russian: Татарстан, tt ...
,
Russian Federation
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
. It was filled in 1963 to be a
cooling pond
A cooling pond is a man-made body of water primarily formed for the purpose of cooling heated water and/or to store and supply cooling water to a nearby power plant or industrial facility such as a petroleum refinery, pulp and paper mill, chemica ...
for
Zainsk TTP. It has surface area 20.5 km², a length 12 km, mean width 1.7 km, mean depth 3.1 m and a volume 63 million cubic meters.
Reservoirs in Russia
Reservoirs in Tatarstan
Cooling ponds
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