Irgana hydroelectric power plant: natural conditions, Layout, and status of construction

摘要

The Irgana hydroproject is under construction in a difficult-to-access mountain locale in the northern Cau- casus in the Republic of Daghestan. It is incorporated in the series of Sulak hydroelectric plants, and is situated on a principal tributary of the Sulak River-Avarskoe Koisu River-in the constricted zone of the Chirkey Reservoir. The hydroproject assumes complex national-economic significance: the effect of its construction will be Manifested in the power industry, in the additional irrigation of 18, 000 ha of land in lowlands surrounding the Caspian Sea, in highway construction (an access road to the hydroproject with its extension to the commonwealth of National Governments' 4.3-km-long Giminsk motor-transport tunnel is a principal element of the radical reconstruction of the Highway network in mountainous Daghestan), and in the enhancement of the socio-economic position of region.