Nurek Dam

The Nurek Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Vakhsh River in . Its primary purpose is hydroelectric power generation and its power station has an installed capacity of 3,015 MW.
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  • Dam
  • …lies at an elevation of around 900 metres (2,970 feet)
  • …dates from 1961
  • Description: earth-fill embankment dam on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan, near Norak
  • Also known as
    “Norak Dam”
    “Nurek Hydro-electric Station”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Norak.
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Nurek Dam

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Latitude
38.37372° or 38° 22′ 25″ north
Longitude
69.34818° or 69° 20′ 53″ east
Open location code
8JCF98FX+F7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 28126900
Open­Street­Map feature
waterway=­dam
Geo­Names ID
7283727
Wiki­data ID
Q913334

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Nurek Dam” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سد نورك”
  • Armenian: “Նուրեկի հիդրոէլեկտրակայան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nurek SES”
  • Catalan: “Presa de Nurek”
  • Cebuano: “Nurek Dam”
  • Chinese: “努列克坝”
  • Croatian: “Brana Norak”
  • Croatian: “Brana Nurek”
  • Croatian: “Norak”
  • Croatian: “Nurek”
  • Czech: “Nurecká přehrada”
  • Czech: “Nurecká přehradní nádrž”
  • Czech: “Nurecká vodní nádrž”
  • Czech: “Nurekská přehrada”
  • Czech: “Nurekská vodní nádrž”
  • Dutch: “Norakdam”
  • Dutch: “Norekdam”
  • Dutch: “Nurek Dam”
  • Estonian: “Noraki hüdroelektrijaam”
  • Estonian: “Noraki pais”
  • Estonian: “Noraki tamm”
  • Estonian: “Nureki hüdroelektrijaam”
  • Estonian: “Nureki pais”
  • Estonian: “Nureki tamm”
  • Finnish: “Norakin pato”
  • French: “Barrage de Nourek”
  • German: “Nurek-Staudamm”
  • Hebrew: “סכר נורק”
  • Hungarian: “Nurek-gát”
  • Indonesian: “Bendungan Nurek”
  • Italian: “diga di Norak”
  • Italian: “Diga di Nurek”
  • Italian: “Nurek Dam”
  • Japanese: “ヌレークダム”
  • Japanese: “ヌレクダム”
  • Korean: “누레크댐”
  • Lithuanian: “Nureko HE”
  • Lithuanian: “Nureko tvenkinys”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nurek-demningen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nurek”
  • Norwegian: “Nurek-demningen”
  • Persian: “سد نارک”
  • Polish: “Zapora Nurecka”
  • Portuguese: “Barragem de Nurek”
  • Pushto: “نورېک برېښنابند”
  • Romanian: “Barajul Nurek”
  • Russian: “Нурекская ГЭС”
  • Scots: “Nurek Dam”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Norak”
  • Slovenian: “Jez Nurek”
  • Spanish: “Embalse de Nurek”
  • Spanish: “Presa de Nurek”
  • Spanish: “Presa Nurek”
  • Swedish: “Norak”
  • Swedish: “Nurak”
  • Swedish: “Nurek Dam”
  • Swedish: “Nurek”
  • Tajik: “Nerūgohi obiji Norak”
  • Tajik: “ГЭС-и Норак”
  • Tajik: “НБО норак”
  • Tajik: “Нерӯгоҳи барқи обии Норак”
  • Tajik: “Нерӯгоҳи обии Норак”
  • Tamil: “நியுரெக் அணை”
  • Telugu: “నురెక్ ఆనకట్ట”
  • Turkish: “Nurek Barajı”
  • Ukrainian: “Нурекське водосховище”
  • Ukrainian: “Нурецька ГЕС”
  • Ukrainian: “Нурецьке водосховище”
  • Uzbek: “Norak ges”
  • Uzbek: “Norak suv ombori”
  • Vietnamese: “Đập Nurek”

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