Cheboksary Reservoir

Cheboksary Reservoir

Cheboksary Reservoir (Russian: Чебоксарское водохранилище, Chuvash: Шупашкар шыв усравĕ) is an artificial lake in the central part of the Volga River and formed by the Cheboksary Dam in Novocheboksarsk.

A surface area of Cheboksary Reservoir is 2190 km², max width is 16 km, max depth is 35 m.

The largest cities on the Reservoir are Nizhny Novgorod, Cheboksary and Kozmodemyansk.

Note

v · d · eVolga River
Tributaries
Selizharovka · Vazuza · Tvertsa · Shosha  · Dubna · Medveditsa · Nerl · Kashinka · Sit' · Mologa · Suda · Sheksna · Sogozha · Kotorosl · Kostroma · Nyomda · Unzha · Uzola · Oka · Kudma · Kerzhenets · Sura · Vetluga · Rutka · Tsivil · Great Kokshaga · Little Kokshaga · Anish · Ilet · Sviyaga · Sumka · Kazanka · Kama · Aktay · Bezdna · Cheremshan · Sok · Samara · Chapayevka · Little Irgiz · Irgiz · Tereshka · Yeruslan · Akhtuba (distributary)
 Map of the drainage basin of the Volga.
Reservoirs
Volgo Lake · Ivankovo · Uglich · Rybinsk · Gorky · Cheboksary · Kuybyshev · Saratov · Volgograd
Hydroelectric
stations
Ivankovo · Uglich · Rybinsk · Nizhny Novgorod · Cheboksary · Zhiguli · Saratov · Volga
Canals
Moscow Canal · Volga–Baltic Waterway · Volga–Don Canal


Coordinates: 56°18′00″N 46°42′53″E / 56.3°N 46.71472°E / 56.3; 46.71472


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