Nurek Dam

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Nurek Dam is a massive Soviet-era earth-fill embankment dam in Tajikistan, once the world’s tallest, built for hydroelectric power generation and irrigation on the Vakhsh River.

All labels observed (3)

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Nurek Dam canonical 4
Nurek Hydroelectric Power Plant 1
Nurek Reservoir 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf embankment dam
hydroelectric dam
baseWidth 700 metres
constructedBy Soviet Union
constructionEndDate 1980
constructionMaterial earth-fill
rock-fill
constructionStartDate 1961
country Tajikistan
crestWidth 20 metres
damType earth-fill embankment
hasCoreType central clay core
hasSpillwayType gated overflow
height 300 metres
984 feet
installedCapacity 3,000 megawatts
latitude 38.38 N
length 2,300 feet
700 metres
locatedIn Khatlon Region
Nurek District
locatedNear city of Nurek
locatedOnRiver Vakhsh River
locatedSoutheastOf Dushanbe
longitude 69.35 E
openingDate 1972
operator Barqi Tojik
owner Government of Tajikistan
plantCommissioningEnd 1979
plantCommissioningStart 1972
primaryPurpose hydroelectric power generation
providesElectricityTo Tajikistan
region Central Asia
reservoirName Nurek Reservoir
linked to: Nurek
reservoirSurfaceArea 38 square miles
98 square kilometres
reservoirTotalCapacity 10.5 cubic kilometres
8,500,000 acre feet
riverCrossed Vakhsh River
secondaryPurpose irrigation
surpassedBy Jinping-I Dam
turbineCapacity 335 megawatts
turbineCount 9
turbineType Francis turbine
usedForIrrigationIn Vakhsh Valley
linked to: Vakhsh River

cotton-growing regions of Tajikistan
wasWorldTallestDam true
worldTallestDamFrom 1972
worldTallestDamUntil 2013

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Vakhsh River hasHydropowerDam Nurek Dam
Sangtuda 2 Dam locatedNear Nurek Dam
Nurek hasNearby Nurek Dam
Nurek knownFor Nurek Dam
Nurek hasNearby Nurek Reservoir
linked to: Nurek Dam
Nurek hasNearby Nurek Hydroelectric Power Plant
linked to: Nurek Dam