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Toktogul Dam day. Toktogul Dam Toktogul Dam is a hydroelectric and irrigation dam on the Naryn River in the Jalal-Abad Province of Kyrgyzstan. It is concrete gravity dam with height of and length of . It is a part of the Naryn-Syr Darya cascade. It is named after Toktogul Satilganov. The Toktogul Hydroelectric Station has installed capacity of 1,200 MW, which makes it the largest power plant in the country. It has four turbines with capacity of 300 MW each. Toktogul Reservoir (, ; ) is the largest of the reservoirs on the path of the Naryn River, a northern tributary of