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Yenisey
Summary
The Yenisey (Енисе́й, jɪnjɪˈsjej), also romanised as Yenisei or Jenisej, is the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean.
Rising in Mungaragiyn-gol in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course through Lake Baikal and the Krasnoyarsk Dam before draining into the Yenisey Gulf in the Kara Sea. The Yenisey divides the Western Siberian Plain in the west from the Central Siberian Plateau to the east; it drains a large part of central Siberia.
It is the central one of three large Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob and the Lena). The maximum depth of the Yenisey is and the average depth is .
The Yenisey proper, from the confluence of its source rivers Great Yenisey and Little Yenisey at Kyzyl to its mouth in the Kara Sea, is long. From the source of its tributary Selenga, it is long. It has a drainage basin of . The Yenisey flows through the Russian federal subjects Tuva, Khakassia and Krasnoyarsk Krai. The city of Krasnoyarsk is situated on the Yenisey.
The largest tributaries of the Yenisey are, from source to mouth:
Little Yenisey (left)
Great Yenisey (right)
Khemchik (left)
Kantegir (left)
Abakan (left)
Tuba (right)
Mana (right)
Bazaikha (right)
Kacha (left)
Kan (right)
Angara (right)
Kem (left)
Bolshoy Pit (right)
Sym (left)
Dubches (left)
Podkamennaya Tunguska (right)
Bakhta (right)
Yeloguy (left)
Nizhnyaya Tunguska (right)
Turukhan (left)
Kureyka (right)
Khantayka (right)
Bolshaya Kheta (left)
Tanama (left)
Lake Baikal
A significant feature of the Upper Yenisei is Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest lake in the world.
The Brekhovskie Islands (Russian-language article: Бреховские острова) lie in the Yenisey estuary and have an area of some 1,400,000 hectares. They provide a wetland habitat for rare and endangered birds and are an internationally important nesting and breeding area for several types of waterfowl. The most north-easterly of the islands, Nosonovskij Ostrov ("Nose Island") was visited by Fridtjof Nansen in 1913.
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