Old Crimea Reservoir, Reservoir in Crimea

The Old Crimea Reservoir lies in the Crimean foothills at 220 m above sea level, in the Churyuk-Su basin just east of Stary Krym. Its 507 m long, 24.65 m high dam blocks the Monastyrskaya where it joins the Churyuk-Su. The water surface covers 0.43 km², the shoreline runs 3.7 km, and the maximum volume is 3.15 million m³.

Built in 1957 by Ukrvodbud to a design of the Crimean branch of Ukrgiprovodkhoz, the reservoir dammed the Monastyrskaya where it joins the Churyuk-Su, just east of Old Crimea. The 507 m long, 24.65 m high dam created a maximum volume of 3.15 million m³. Between 1977 and 1981 it was reconstructed by SMU-91 under Krymkanalstroy.

The reservoir takes its name from the town of Old Crimea (Eski Qırım in Crimean Tatar), just west of the dam. Its water was meant to raise Crimean harvests for the tourist sector after the war. Since May, five pumping stations lifted Dnieper water 250 m up from the North Crimean Canal, 32 km away.

The reservoir lies in the Crimean foothills at 220 m above sea level, a little east of Stary Krym, where the Monastyrskaya channel was dammed at its confluence with the Churyuk-Su. The 507 m long, 24.65 m high dam needs constant monitoring because of mudflow danger, so keep off the dam and banks and view the water mirror of 0.43 km² from a distance.

The dam, 507 m long and 24.65 m high, needs constant monitoring because of mudflow danger. In November 2021 the reservoir held only 0.23 million m³ of its 3.15 million m³ maximum, and restoring water supply from the North Crimean Canal, fed by underground intakes, was under consideration.