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Encyclopedia: Yenisei River

Yenisei (Russian: Енисе́й) is the greatest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean, and the fifth longest river in the world. It is slightly shorter but with 1.5 times the flow of the Mississippi-Missouri. Rising in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course to the Kara Sea, draining a large part of central Siberia, the longest stream following the Yenisei-Angara-Selenga-Ider being about 5,500 km. Its watershed, which includes the world's largest (by volume) freshwater lake, Lake Baikal, holds more water than any other river system.

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How to say "Yenisei River" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	葉尼塞河
	(Japanese)	エニセイ川
	(German)	Jenissei
	(Spanish)	Yeniséi
	(French)	Ienisseï
	(Italian)	Enisej

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Minusinsk

Minusinsk ( Минуси́нск ) is a town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, on the Yenisei River. Founded in 1739, town status since 1822. Population 69,000 (1985...

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Abakan

capital of Khakassia in Siberia, Russia. It is located on the river Yenisei, 144 miles SSW of... River is a river of south-central Russia rising in the western Sayan Mountains and flowing about 563 km northeast to the Yenisei River...

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Angara

west after receiving the Ilim River and flows into the Yenisei River near Strelka. Below its junction with the Ilim River the Angara is known also as the Upper Tunguska (Russian Verkhnyaya Tunguska... Angara ( Ангара́ ) is a river, 1840 km (1150 m.) long, in SE Siberia, Russia. After leaving...

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Dikson

Dikson (Russian: Диксон) is both a Russian town and island near the mouth of the Yenisei River, in Taymyria. It is located at 73° 32' N, 80° 36' O. Dikson serves as a port to the Kara Sea and is part of the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk to the Bering Sea. In the 17th century the island...

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Fyodor Minin

, that would chart the Arctic Ocean coastline east of the Yenisei river. In 1738-1740, Minin made an...

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Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk (Красноярск, 2002 pop. 911,000), seat of Krasnoyarsk Krai, is the third largest city in Siberia. It lies on the Yenisei River and is an important station on the Trans-Siberian railway. The city was founded in 1628, as a fort on the frontier. Its growth was stimulated by the...

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Mangazeya

Mangazeya was a Northwest Siberian trans-Ural trade colony and later city in the 16-17th centuries. It was situated where the Ob and Yenisei rivers flow into the Arctic Ocean. Russian settlers of the White Sea coasts of Russia ( pomors ) had found a route along the Arctic coast to Arkhangelsk to...

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Cermonial drum

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Samoyedic languages

language and respective ethnic groups include: Nenets, Yenets or Enets, the tribe by Yenisei River... Yamal Peninsula, the mouths of the Ob and the Yenisei and into the Taimyr peninsula in northernmost...

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Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld

, nearly starving to death. In 1875, he went to the Yenisei River in Siberia, in a small vessel, which he sent back while he went up the river and returned home by land. The next year he went to the United...

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