Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station

The Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station or Zhigulyovskaya Hydroelectric Station (Russian: Жигулёвская ГЭС, Zhigulyovskaya GES), formerly known as Kuybyshev Hydroelectric Station (Kuybyshev GES) is a hydroelectric station on the Volga River, located near Zhigulyovsk and Tolyatti in Samara Oblast of Russia. It is the sixth stage of the Volga-Kama Cascade of dams, and the second of them by installed power.

General data

Construction started in 1950 and was completed in 1957. The complex consists of earth-fill dam, 2800 m long, 750 m wide and 52 m high, concrete spillway dam, 980 m long, power plant house, 700 m long, and two-lane navigable locks. Installed power is 2315 MW, average annual production is 10,500 GWh. The power house has 20 generator units with Kaplan turbines, 17 of 65 MW and 3 of 120 MW at 22.5 m head. The dam forms Kuybyshev Reservoir.

Economic value

The station covers peak loads and maintains frequency stability in Russia unified energy system (UES), controls flood and maintains navigable waterway. Lower hydroelectric stations are utilised more effectively because of seasonal and over-year regulation provided by the dam. Enegry produced by station is transferred by four 500 KV lines - two of them to UES of central Russia and two to UES of the Urals and the Middle Volga.

History

The idea of hydroelectric station on the Volga near Samara Bend was proposed by Gleb Krzhizhanovsky in 1910. Ten years later K. V. Bogoyavlensky proposed a hydroelectruc station near Perevoloki, utilizing naturally existing water level difference. Disrupted economic system did not allowed to realize this project.

In the early 1930s Volga near Samara Bend and Yaroslavl was surveyed, and some projects of dams were proposed. In 1937 a project of dam near Perevoloki and Krasnaya Glinka settlements was approved. Forced labour was actively used (Kuybyshev Camp, up to 30,000 people). In the autumn of 1940, oil fields were found near construction site, causing construction suspension.

"Hydroproject" Institute continued survey in 1949, after which a decision was made to build the hydroelectric station near Zhigulyovsk. August 21, 1950, project of the station with installed power of 2.1 GW was approved. Construction have been started, as before, with forced labour used. Construction was completed in 1957.

Locks

July 1955 first steamer vessel passed through lower locks. Main Volga current was shut in November that year, and first turbine was put under load on December 29, 1955. Less than in a year, by October 1956, 1000 GWh of electric energy was produced. In 1956, 12 turbines were put under load, next 7 in 1957. August 10, 1958, station was renamed after Vladimir Lenin, (Russian: Волжская ГЭС им. В. И. Ленина), in May 1959 all constructions were finished.

During construction the Volga course was shut in record time - in 19.5 hours during the period of minimal discharge ( 3800 m³/s ). Each turbine unit was mounted in average of one month, in a half of usual for that type of hydroelectric stations of that time. Later it was revealed that turbines were actually able to run at power of 115 MW instead of 105 MW designed, that allowed to increase installed power up to 2.3 GW.

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Антон Штанков
Здесь хорошая пробка! Бывает на час, бывает на два... а может повезти и тогда появляется пробка на три и более часов! А если не успел проехать с 7:00 до 22:00, то можно разбивать палатку
ivan
4 August 2015
отборные пробки, хороший вид и разбитый асфальт!
Автоградович
Сюда надо водить молодеж и деточек дабы приобрести им понимание величественности воли человечей и размаха души русского инженера.
Rinat Faratov
1 October 2019
Все думают, что ГЭС это мост и жалуются на пробки))
operkot
24 August 2013
Если не ошибаюсь - это одна из самых первых ГЭС такого масштаба
Ирина Ермоленко
На кольце в Жиг.Море уже готовятся к ремонту, пробки временно станут еще больше...
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