The Lykovskaya HPP was built in the middle of the last century and provided electricity to a dozen collective farms. It is located in the Oryol region in the Mtsensk region, near the village of Bolshoye Lykovo. If you look, you can see it quite well on satellite maps - such an isthmus across the river.
The route of our trip and its concept can be seen here: We are participating in the project «Russia in 365 days»
I don't really know how hydroelectric power plants worked, so I can hardly judge what and how it was here before. I can only say that there is nothing left inside of the equipment, the building looks at you with its empty eye-sockets, and the water flows calmly between the concrete walls, where there should have been water locks before. Only in one place is the shutter lifting mechanism intact, the rest are simply not there.
Most of all I liked the wooden bridge over the river on top of the dam. It is very colorful, I think it would be a good place for photo shoots. In addition, the wooden posts, which are the flooring, smell like sleepers, and I really love this smell since childhood..
Lovers of the sea should also go here, because even on the hike to the Lykovskaya hydroelectric station, you can smell the sea. Most likely arising from the fish, which, jumping towards the stream, trying to get over the obstacle, falls on the shore and lies there.
The village nearby is the most common half-living, but the places are beautiful. People come here to fish and relax, as evidenced by the garbage on the banks.
By the way, while we were driving «courtyards» from the Simferopol highway to the Moscow-Don highway, I once again realized how beautiful our country is, and in particular the Oryol region. All the way we exclaimed and were amazed, now high hills and deep ravines, now birch forests with spreading trees, now endless fields, changing their colored clothes from black to green ...