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The dictionary translation is plotina, but I can never remember it because I rarely see it in Russian texts.
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In this case dam probably translates дамба damba, not plotina.
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That's why I can't remember plotina; what we call the Hoover Dam, the Russians would call the Hoover GES.
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A damb that is part of a hydro power facility is definitely plotina.
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The story concerned the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam; I did a Russian search on the name and discovered the feminine gender is caused not by plotina but by GES, the Russian acronym for 'hydroelectric station.'
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