Mingachevir Dam, Mingachevir

The Mingachevir Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Kura River just north of Mingachevir in Azerbaijan. It serves several purposes to include hydroelectric power production and water storage for irrigation. The Mingachevir reservoir, behind the dam, supplies water to the Upper Qarabag and Upper Sirvan Channels which help irrigate about 1,000,000 ha of farmland in the country. Its six Francis turbine-generators were overhauled or replaced with 70 megawatts sets in 2000. Mingachevir reservoir has a storage capacity of 15.730 cubic kilometres, covering 605 km². The length of the dam is 1,550 metres, its width is 16 metres and height is 80 m. It is the largest hydroelectric power station in the South Caucasus, is located over Kur river and not far from Mingachevir city. ()