Golovnaya Dam
The Golovnaya Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Vakhsh River just east of Sarband in Khatlon Province, Tajikistan. It serves to provide water to a system of irrigation canals and generate hydroelectric power.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Industrial building
- Description: dam in Levakant, Sarband District, Khatlon Province
- Also known as: “Sarband (Golovnaya) Hydroelectric Plant”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Levakant and Khatlon.
Levakant
Town
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Levakant, is a city in south-west Tajikistan. It is part of Khatlon Region, located just east of the regional capital Bokhtar and about 120 km south of the national capital Dushanbe.
Khatlon
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Khatlon Region, one of the four provinces of Tajikistan, is the most populous of the four first-level administrative regions in the country. It is situated in the southwest of the country, between the Hisor Range in the north and the river Panj in the south…
Golovnaya Dam
- Categories: hydroelectric power station, embankment dam, building, and industry
- Location: Tajikistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.88315° or 37° 52′ 59″ northLongitude
68.93694° or 68° 56′ 13″ eastElevation
475 metres (1,558 feet)Inception
1962Operator
Barqi TojikOpen location code
8J9CVWMP+7QOpenStreetMap ID
way 751601194OpenStreetMap feature
building=industrial
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Uzbek—“Golovnaya Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Golovnaya Power Plant”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Golovnaja-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Golovnaja-demningen”
- Persian: “سد گلونوایا”
- Russian: “Головная ГЭС (Таджикистан)”
- Russian: “Головная ГЭС”
- Tajik: “НБО «Сарбанд»”
- Tajik: “НБО Сарбанд”
- Ukrainian: “Сарбандська ГЕС”
- Uzbek: “Sarband GES”
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