Batoka Gorge Hydroelectric Power Station their investment (with profits). Batoka Gorge Hydroelectric Power Station The proposed Batoka Gorge Hydroelectric Power Station is a hydroelectric power station, planned to be on the Zambezi River across the International border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. The proposed power station will be located on the Zambezi River, approximately , downstream of Victoria Falls, straddling the international border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Currently, the proposal is for two power plants, each with an installed capacity of ; one on the Zambian side and another on the Zimbabwean side. The dam to supply the reservoir with water will be a tall arch-gravity
Russia–Zambia relations state visits in 1974 and 1987. Relations between the two countries soured in 1976, when Kaunda said on the Soviet and Cuban presence in Angola, "(t)hey drove colonialism and fascism out the front door, only to let a plundering tiger and its cubs in the back door." Soviet support for the Zimbabwe African People's Union, which operated primarily out of Zambia, helped to stop relations from detiorating further, and ties became warmer after Abel Muzorewa, the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia launched airstrikes inside Zambia in 1979. After the strikes, Zambia unsuccessfully sought Western military aid, which saw Zambia turning