Dnipro Hydroelectric

19.08.20 Ankitt

Between Dnipro and Zaporizhia there used to be over 100 kilometres of impassable rapids on the River Dnieper, which is one of the reasons this region was so hard for empires to control. Plans to make the river navigable were announced in the 1890s, .. Read more »and it would be another three decades before the city’s famous hydroelectric dam was completed. A few years after its initial unveiling in 1932, the whole structure had to be rebuilt almost from scratch after it was wrecked in the Second World War. The dam is 800 metres long, with a height of 61 metres, and has a capacity of 1,569 megawatts. You could cross it via the footbridge, but it’s a trip to make at quiet times as the traffic can be a bit much

16.01.19 Матвеев

Nice place with nice view on Dnieper river. I really enjoyed the view. I think that it looks even nicer in the evening with all those lights turned on.

20.12.15 Adam

A great fixture of СССР. Every season it provides different views of the Дніпро. Good place for taking landscape pictures.