Kaniv Reservoir, reservoir in Ukraine
Kaniv Reservoir is the youngest of the Dnieper cascade reservoirs, covering 675 km² with about 2.63 km³ of water. It stretches 123 km with a maximum width of 8 km and a greatest depth of 21 m, though it is very shallow near the banks. The Stuhna and Trubizh rivers flow into it, and the dam, 16 km long, stands east of Kaniv and includes a hydroelectric station and a lock.
Filling of the reservoir took place between 1974 and 1976, making it the youngest in the Dnieper cascade. Its dam, comprising the Kaniv hydroelectric station and a lock, was built between 1972 and 1978 and is 16 km long. About 20 villages were flooded, including Husyntsi, whose Transfiguration Church survived, and Tsybliv, whose old part was submerged and whose church ruins remain.
The dam and its lock lie about 1 km north-west of the centre of Kaniv, on the eastern shore; the reservoir's backwater reaches the Kyiv HES dam upstream. The Kyiv stretch keeps the Dnieper's old channel, arms and islands, so boating and fishing follow the historic fairway. Water levels are regulated, so summer shoals near the Pedestrian and Paton bridges no longer form.
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