Kakhovka Dam

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 (́, 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. The Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant had a staff of 241 in October 2015. The dam was profitable bringing ₴6.1 million ($236, 000) to local government budgets and ₴44.6 million ($1.73 million) to the national income. On the morning of 6 June 2023, much of the dam was destroyed while it was under Russian control during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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