GES: Novosibirsk (photo)

Few know that there is a hydroelectric power station in Novosibirsk. This is one of the most important strategic objects of the city. In 1976 the station is recognized as a historical monument in the regional sense, and it is included in the list of cultural heritage and is protected by the state.

In comparison with Bratsk, the Siberian station is not so powerful. However, in the western part of our state it is one and plays a huge role in energy regulation. JSC RusHydro manages hydropower plants, including the Novosibirsk Hydroelectric Power Station.

How did you build the Novosibirsk hydroelectric station?

Power engineers planned to build the station in the early twentieth century. But World War I made its own corrections. The construction of the century was postponed indefinitely.

Then in the thirties the architects and engineers again returned to the design of the Siberian energy facility. The river was planned to be used for navigational, energy, agricultural and fishing purposes. The scale of the project was grandiose. But the work was postponed until the end of the Great Patriotic War. During the years of battles, the significance of Novosibirsk increased several times. In the city, evacuated factories from Leningrad were opened, the settlement began to experience an acute shortage of electric energy.

In 1950, a decision was made on the grandiose construction of many energy facilities. They were Bratsk, Tsimlyanskaya, Kakhovskaya, including Novosibirsk, HPP.

In October of the same year the Leningrad region established the most suitable place for the construction of a power plant. Next, 1951, the year is marked by the beginning of intensive construction of hydroelectric power stations. Novosibirsk invested a lot of resources and forces. The pace of construction was high.

Already in 1953 the first cubic meter of concrete was laid. Three years later, the builders blocked the channel of the Ob River, due to which many villages and country communities were flooded. They were transferred, and the owners received financial assistance. A year later the first hydroelectric unit was launched.

In the building of the century, teams of students, factory workers and other categories of the population participated. After a hard working day at the bench Soviet people went to build a power plant.

A little later, the state commission adopted the water Siberian giant. Over the years of the station's work, construction costs have paid off several times already.

The dam of hydroelectric power station Novosibirsk

During its half-century history the hydroelectric power plant produced about 100 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, saving 30 million tons of coal!

The city of Novosibirsk discharges water from the hydroelectric power station. The station not only produces electricity, but also regulates its level without damage to shipping and fisheries. In addition, the formed Ob Sea is a source of drinking water for Siberians. The Altai Territory also uses the reservoir resources, fueling the lakes and the Kulunda steppes.

Thanks to the power plant, Novosibirsk opens on the right bank Akademgorodok. This is the potential and scientific center of Siberia. It has a huge number of institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and also Novosibirsk State University.

The hydroelectric power station connects the left and right banks of the city. On the left is the Ob-HES or Left Chemy district, and there is also a station management building.

Hydroelectric plant objects in Novosibirsk

The Novosibirsk HPP is not designed from the same building. The station is a whole complex consisting of buildings, structures and structures of different significance. These include: a dam, two dam dams, a building of a hydropower plant, a three-chamber sluice for passing ships, a reservoir.

The latter has considerable scale. Its length is about 250 kilometers, and the width is more than 25 kilometers. The dam raised the river to a height of about 20 meters.

The length of the dam is almost 5 kilometers. Most of it is a mound. And only 420 meters - the length of the station building and the dam of water drainage. Seven turbines are installed in a two-story production room. There is a hall in which the control panel is installed.

Consequences of building construction

Today it is thanks to the hydroelectric power station that Novosibirsk controls the water level and regulates it. During the construction of the hydroelectric power station, about 100 hectares of land were flooded for flooding, there were also plots for agriculture, forests, and about 60 settlements.

Before flooding, more than 8,000 different buildings were moved. The largest settlement that fell under flooding, the city of Berdsk. He was completely carried to new lands 18 kilometers from the base. New Berdsk was built according to modern requirements of urban development. So the townspeople had electricity, running water and sewerage. The city became twice as large as before.

Due to the appearance of the dam, some species of fish became inaccessible to the spawning site. So the dam became an obstacle for semipermanent fish species (sturgeon and nelma). But after a small amount of time in the reservoir formed its own circle ichthyofauna. Scientists have discovered 34 species of fish. The dam of the hydroelectric power station (Novosibirsk) is used by fishermen regularly. The yield is 2 thousand tons per year.

Rest on the Ob Sea

Shores of the Ob reservoir are put in order. The people bathe, ride on yachts and catamarans, conduct various competitions. A lot of tent camps opened on the left bank. Siberians rest near a pond among a pine forest. It is necessary for the city of HPP. Thanks to her, Novosibirsk has acquired more strength, resources and opportunities.