The Rybinsk Reservoir, informally called the Rybinsk Sea (Rybinskoye vodokhranilishche), is a vast water reservoir on Volga River and its tributaries Sheksna and Mologa. Its area is 4580 sq km, volume 25,4 cu km. The principal ports are Cherepovets in the Vologda Oblast and Vesyegonsk in the Tver Oblast. Rybinsk (Ры́бинск) is a city in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, at the confluence of the Volga and Sheksna. ... Nothing!HAHAHAHAHA! ... Volga in Yaroslavl (autumn morning) Length 3,690 km Elevation of the source 225 m Average discharge 8,000 m³/s Area watershed 1. ... Sheksna (Шексна́) — river in Russia, left tributary of Volga. ... Mologa (Моло́га) — river in Russia, left tributary of Volga. ... Cherepovets (Черепове́ц) is a city in Vologda Oblast, Russia. ... Categories: Stub | Oblasts of Russia ... Vesyegonsk (Весьего́нск) is a town in Tver Oblast, Russia. ... Tver Oblast (Russian: Тверска́я о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ...

The Rybinsk dam was constructed in 1941, but the reservoir was not filled until 1947. Some 150,000 people had to be resettled elsewhere, and the historic town of Mologa in Yaroslavl Oblast has completely disappeared under water. At that time, the reservoir was the largest man-made body of water on Earth. As the time goes by, however, it has been increasingly viewed as a typical sample of Stalinist voluntarism. Today the dam is less important for electricity supply than it used to be, but the ecological damage caused by the reservoir is being re-evaluated and many find it to be very great. Jump to: navigation, search 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mologa (Моло́га) — river in Russia, left tributary of Volga. ... Yaroslavl Oblast (Яросла́вская о́бласть) is located in the Central Federal District of Russia, surrounded by the Tver, Moscow, Ivanovo, Vladimir, Kostroma, and Vologda Oblasts. ... Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 1879[1] – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union. ...

See also

• Reservoirs and dams in Russia and CIS

Jump to: navigation, search Industrialization reached Russia later than Western Europe and North America, and one of the few large scale dams dating from the Tsarist era is on the Volkhov near St Petersburg (opened 1926). ...

External links

• Russian Atlantis: What lies underneath the Rybinsk Sea
• Webpage of the Leushino Monastery, now submerged under the waters of the Rybinsk Sea