A significant amount of water in Russia is the Yenisei - the largest of the country's rivers. It carries nearly 600 cubic km of annual water volumes to the open spaces of the Kara Sea. This is more than all the waters carried into the seas by all the rivers of European Russia, and three times exceeds the Volga runoff.
About where this great river originates, and how many tributaries of the Yenisei, what is its location, and many interesting things can be found in this article.
Geographical position
The Yenisei, whose tributaries are the famous rivers of Russia, extends mainly through the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
The river flows from south to north almost strictly along the meridian, so it divides the territory of Russia in approximately half. And his pool is represented by three completely different parts. In the upper
part, the river is surrounded on all sides by mountains, and the middle and lower serve as the border between Western Siberia (low) and the Central Siberian plateau.
An interesting fact related to the Yenisei is that at the confluence of the sources of this mighty river (Big and Small Yenisei), the city of Kyzyl is located, located exactly in the center of the Asian part of Eurasia. It is here that you can see the obelisk with an interesting inscription: "Center of Asia."
And there is also a place where the Yenisei is divided into numerous sleeves. It is called the Forty Yeniseev.
What is the largest tributary of the Yenisei? How many are there? This will be discussed below.
Yenisei River: description, sources
The river originates from two sources: Ka-Khem and Biy-Khem (Small and Big Yenisei, respectively), then flows into the Yenisei Gulf near the Kara Sea. The Biy-Khem River (the Yenisei’s length is usually calculated from it) originates at the very foot of the Topographers peak on the slope of East Sayan.
The official source of the Yenisei is the Kara-Balyk Lake (alpine), located in the Eastern Sayan Mountains. Hence the river r. Biy Hem.
The length of the river from the source of the Small Yenisei is 4287 km, from the source of the Great Yenisei - 4092 km, the basin has an area of 2580 thousand km 2 . According to this indicator, the Yenisei is on the 2nd place among the Russian rivers (the Ob is on the first) and the 7th is on the planet. The hydrographic network of the river includes more than 198 thousand rivers, the total length of which is more than 884 thousand kilometers, and more than 126 thousand lakes with an area of about 52 thousand km 2 .
The enormous depth of the Yenisei makes it possible for sea vessels to climb it for almost a distance of 1000 kilometers. The maximum depth in it reaches 70 meters. The width at the mouth (district of the Brekhov Islands archipelago) is 75 kilometers. In these places, even the shores are not visible from the side of the ship going along the Yenisei.
High-water Yenisei: tributaries, nutrition
The Yenisei belongs to the type of mixed-fed rivers, with the predominance of food coming from snow, which accounts for about 50%, from rains - about 38%, and from underground food - about 12% (mostly in the upper reaches).
These places are characterized by extended spring floods and floods (summer). In the upper Yenisei, floods begin in May or even in April, on average - a little earlier, and in the lower only from mid-May to early June (Dudinka).
The numerous tributaries of the Yenisei are also numerous. The list is below:
1. Right: Mustache, Tuba, Kebezh, Sisim, Syda, Mana, Hangar, Kan, Kureyka, Big Pete, Baht, Podkamennaya Tunguska, Lower Tunguska, Dudinka, Khantayka.
2. Left: Abakan, Khemchik, Kem, Kantegir, Sym, Kas, Elogui, Turukhan, Dubches, Malaya Kheta, Tanama, Bolshaya Kheta, Gryaznukha.
The Angara River is the largest right
tributary of the Yenisei River, flowing from the great Baikal. Moreover, the right tributaries are leaders in terms of the volume of water brought in and in the area of the catchment area. However, statistics show that approximately 1 year out of 10 years, the Lower Tunguska (2nd inflow in size) is superior to the Angara in annual flow.
The legend of the hangar
Beautiful Yenisei. Its tributaries are also magnificent each in its own way. An amazing legend about one of them emphasizes the delightful and mysterious beauty of these places.
There is a wonderful legend about one of the many tributaries - the Angara River.
Baikal gray-haired loved his daughter - the beautiful Angara. And he hid it deep in his waters from the eyes of others in the rocky walls.
But when the time came to marry her, he began to look for a worthy groom closer, so as not to send her to distant lands. However, Angara did not like his father's choice - the neighbor Irkut, a noble and rich, and she did not marry him.
And once, a friend of her Chaika told about the Yenisei, about his strength and courage, about how he broke through the Sayan Mountains and persistently strives for the Arctic Ocean. She told him what kind of eyes he had: looking like an emerald and the needles of a mountain cedar under the sun.
The beautiful Angara sent greetings to this Yenisei, and he decided to see her. Thus, he made an appointment with the Angara on the way to the ocean on Strelka (village).
The hangar with great joy accepted the offer from the Yenisei. And yet, her father decided to protect the beauty and assigned her the evil raven sorcerer. There it was. Brothers and sisters (rivers and streams) helped to break free of the hangar, having washed the rock.
And the meeting took place on Strelka, where they merged forever and carried their mighty beautiful waters to the great ocean.
origin of name
The Yenisei River got its modern name from the Evenks, a people living in Siberia. They used to call her Johnessi. In the 17th century, the Cossacks who came here changed the Evenki root name. Since then, on all geographical atlases and maps, it is the name of the river that the Cossacks reinterpreted.
The river may well be a Russian symbol. Enormous and vast Yenisei, whose tributaries play an important role in its formation. By its size, it is second only to the famous Nile and the Amazon.
Such large cities as Abakan, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Kansk, Bratsk, Ust-Ilimsk, Angarsk, Minusinsk, Igarka, Dudinka, Norilsk are located in the Yenisei river basin.