Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant

Also known as Kakhovka HPP, Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station

hydroelectric power plant in Ukraine

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Official name: Kakhovska HPS
Location: Nova Kakhovka , Ukraine
Purpose: Power, irrigation, navigation
Status: Destroyed
Construction began: September 1950
Opening date: 1956 ; 70 years ago ( 1956 )
Demolition date: 6 June 2023
Owner: Energy Company of Ukraine
Type of dam: Earth-fill embankment with gravity sections
Impounds: Dnieper River
Height: 30 m (98 ft)
Length: 3,273 m (10,738 ft)
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The Kakhovka Dam was a dam on the Dnieper River (also known as Dnipro) in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, completed in 1956 and destroyed in 2023, which provided water for the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station (Ukrainian: Кахо́вська ГЕС імені П. С. Непорожнього, romanized: Kakhovs'ka HES imeni P. S. Neporozhn'oho). The primary purposes of the dam were hydroelectric power generation, irrigation, and navigation. It was the sixth and last dam in the Dnieper reservoir cascade.

The deep water channel created by the downstream flow allowed shipping up and down river. The facility also included a winter garden. The R47 road and a railway crossed the Dnieper River on the dam.