Aleksandar Stamboliyski Reservoir, Reservoir in Suhindol, Bulgaria
Aleksandar Stamboliyski Reservoir is a water storage area on the Rositsa River between Gorsko Kosovo in Suhindol Municipality and several villages in Sevlievo Municipality. Its dam is a stone masonry gravity wall 66 m high and 380 m long along the crest, with a trench spillway at the left bank. The reservoir holds 205.5 million m³ and covers 17 km².
Construction began in 1940 and ended in late 1954, carried out largely by the Brigadier Movement of the totalitarian regime; 103 workers died in accidents. The reservoir flooded the village of Bara, whose residents were resettled, and when water levels drop, traces of the old buildings and the church cross appear. It was renamed Aleksandar Stamboliyski on 19 June 1953, after the agrarian prime minister of 1919–1923.
The area around the reservoir is accessible by road and offers viewpoints over the water and surrounding landscape. Walking along the shoreline or viewing from elevated positions gives the best sense of the scale of this water body.
The water feeds multiple channels that support farming in the region and shape the local landscape. These irrigation networks are integral to daily life in the surrounding villages and their economic activities.
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