Nurek Dam
The Nurek Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan. Its primary purpose is hydroelectric power generation and its power station has an installed capacity of 3,015 MW.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Dam
- Description: earth-fill embankment dam on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan, near Norak
- Also known as: “Norak Dam” and “Nurek Hydro-electric Station”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Norak.
Norak
Town
Photo: Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Norak is a city in the Khatlon Region of Tajikistan. It is situated on the river Vakhsh, 885 m above sea level, and is 70 km southeast of Dushanbe, the capital. Norak is situated 3 km northwest of Nurek Dam.
Nurek Dam
- Categories: embankment dam and hydroelectric power station
- Location: Tajikistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
38.37372° or 38° 22′ 25″ northLongitude
69.34818° or 69° 20′ 53″ eastElevation
904 metres (2,966 feet)Inception
1961Open location code
8JCF98FX+F7OpenStreetMap ID
way 28126900OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damGeoNames ID
7283727Wikidata 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”
- 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: “누레크 댐”
- Korean: “누레크댐”
- Lithuanian: “Nureko HE”
- Lithuanian: “Nureko tvenkinys”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nurek-demningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nurek”
- Norwegian: “Nurek-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Nurekdemningen”
- 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”
- Telugu: “నూరెక్ 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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