The Rogun dam is expected to reach 335 metres when completed, making it the world's tallest dam and the largest hydropower project ever supported by the EU
ROGUN, Tajikistan – The EU is to become a major funder of Tajikistan’s strategic Rogun dam project as Russia is elbowed out of Central Asia, one of Moscow’s key spheres of influence.
Deep in Tajikistan’s Pamir mountains, the dam’s construction site resembles a giant anthill, where hundreds of trucks disappear into a network of tunnels carved beneath the mountain.
“This is where the Vakhsh River flows,” said Anvar Rahmonov, production director at Rogun HPP OJSC – the Tajik state-controlled company coordinating the project –, pointing from a ridge overlooking the future dam. Below, the river winds through the mountains before being diverted into underground galleries feeding two 600-megawatt turbines.
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