Few people 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 was recognized as a historical monument in regional significance, and it is also included in the list of cultural heritage and is protected by the state.
Compared to Bratsk, the Siberian station is not so powerful. However, in the western part of our state, it alone plays a huge role in energy regulation. JSC RusHydro manages hydroelectric power plants, including Novosibirsk Hydroelectric Power Station.
How was the Novosibirsk hydroelectric power station built?
Power engineers planned to build the station at the beginning of the twentieth century. But World War I made adjustments. The construction of the century was postponed indefinitely.
Then in the thirties, architects and engineers again returned to designing the Siberian energy facility. The river was planned to be used for shipping, energy, agricultural and fishing purposes. The scope of the project was grand. But the work was again delayed until the end of World War II. Over the years of battles, the value of Novosibirsk has increased several times. Evacuated factories from Leningrad were opened in the city, the village began to experience an acute shortage of electric energy.
In 1950, a decision was made on the grand construction of many energy facilities. These were Bratsk, Tsimlyansk, Kakhovskaya, including Novosibirsk, hydroelectric power stations.
In October of the same year, Leningraders established the most suitable place for the construction of a power plant. The next year, 1951, marks the beginning of an intensive construction of hydroelectric power stations. Novosibirsk invested a lot of money and effort. The pace of construction was high.
Already in 1953 the first cubic meter of concrete was laid. Three years later, builders blocked the Ob channel, so many villages and summer cottages were flooded. They were transferred, and material assistance was provided to the owners. A year later, the first hydraulic unit was launched.
Units of students, factory workers, and other categories of the population took part in the construction of the century. After a hard day at the machine, the Soviet people set off to build a power plant.
A little later, the state commission commissioned the Siberian water giant. Over the years the station has been operating, construction costs have paid off several times.
Dam hydroelectric power station Novosibirsk
Over its half-century history, the hydroelectric power station generated about 100 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, saving 30 million tons of coal!
The city of Novosibirsk implements a discharge of water from a hydroelectric power station. The station not only produces electricity, but also regulates its level without affecting shipping and fisheries. In addition, the formed Ob Sea is a source of drinking water for Siberians. Altai Territory also uses reservoir resources , feeding lakes and Kulunda steppes.
Thanks to the hydroelectric power station, Novosibirsk opens on the right bank of the Academgorodok. This is the potential and scientific center of Siberia. A huge number of institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences are concentrated in it, as well as the Novosibirsk State University.
A hydroelectric power station connects the left and right banks of the city. On the left is the ObGES district or Left Chemy, there is also a station management building.
Objects of a hydroelectric power station in Novosibirsk
The Novosibirsk hydroelectric station 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 embankments, a hydroelectric power station building, a three-chamber lock for passage of vessels, and a reservoir.
The latter has a considerable scale. Its length is about 250 kilometers and a width of more than 25 kilometers. The dam raised the river to a height of about 20 meters.
The length of the constructed dam is almost 5 kilometers. Most of it is mounds. And only 420 meters - the length of the station building and the water discharge dam. There are seven turbines installed in a two-story industrial building. There is a room in which the control panel is installed.
Consequences of the construction
Today, thanks to the Novosibirsk hydroelectric power station, the water level is controlled and regulated. During the construction of the hydroelectric power station, about 100 hectares of land were allocated 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 is the city of Berdsk. It was completely carried out to new lands 18 kilometers from the base. New Berdsk was built according to the modern requirements of urban planning. So the townspeople got electricity, running water and sewage. The city has become twice as large as before.
Due to the appearance of the dam, some species of fish became inaccessible place of spawning. So the dam became an obstacle for semi-aisle fish species (sturgeon and nelma). But after a small amount of time, a circle of ichthyofauna formed in the reservoir. Scientists have discovered 34 species of fish. Dam Dam (Novosibirsk) is used regularly by fishermen. The offspring is 2 thousand tons per year.
Rest on the Ob Sea
The shores of the Ob reservoir are being put in order. People bathe, ride yachts and catamarans, conduct various competitions. On the left bank opened many campgrounds. Siberians have a rest near a reservoir among a pine forest. Needed for the city hydroelectric power station. Novosibirsk gained thanks to her even more strength, means and capabilities.