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  Yenisei River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Yenisei rises in two major headstreams: the Bolshoi (greater) Yenisei also known as the Bii-Khem (Бии-Хем) rises in the Tuva region on the S flank of the Eastern Sayan Mountains at 52°20′ N 97°30′ E; the Malyy (lesser) Yenisei also known as the Kaa-Khem (Каа-Хем) rises in the Darhat (rift) valley in Mongolia.
About 100 km downstream the Yenisei is swollen by the Abakan river and passes Abakan, capital of the Khakassia region, on the west bank and Minusinsk on the east bank.
During the ice age, the route to the arctic was blocked by ice.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yenisei_River   (1293 words)

  
 Krasnoyarsk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It lies on the Yenisei River and is an important station on the Trans-Siberian railway.
The Yenisei water level near the city center is 136 meters (446 ft) from the Sea level.
The city is situated on the both banks of the Yenisei River, in the city area it flows from west to east.
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 Yenisei River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Yenisei, a river of Asia, which rises in two principal headstreams, the Bei-kem and the Khua-kem, on the plateau of NW Mongolia - the former on the S flank of the Sayan Mountains in 97° 30' E and 52° 20' N, and the latter in marshes a few miles W of Lake Kosso-gol.
The Yenisei continues N to the Arctic Ocean, joined on the left by the Zym, Turukhan and Ingarevka, and on the right by the Kureika and Daneshkina.
It is navigable as far up as Minusinsk, a distance of 2900 km (1840 m.), and is free from ice on the average for 155 days at Turukhansk[?] and for 196 days between May and November at Krasnoyarsk.
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 Yenisei
It is formed at Kyzyl, Tuva Republic, by the junction of the Bolshoi Yenisei and Maly Yenisei rivers, which rise in the E Sayan Mts.
The Angara, Stony Tunguska, and Lower Tunguska rivers are the Yenisei's chief tributaries.
Igarka on the lower river is the region's chief lumber-loading port.
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 Ob and Yenisei Gulf budgets
The southern boundary of the Yenisei Gulf (72.75° N - 79.85° E) is considered to be the end of the Yenisei River delta (Figure 2).
The Yenisei River is the largest single river in Russia with a length of 4,102 km and a catchment area of 2,580x10
Freshwater inputs are summed from precipitation, the Yenisei River discharge and the groundwater inputs.
data.ecology.su.se /MNODE/Asia/Russia/ObYenisei/ObYeniseibud.html   (1590 words)

  
 Cave art in Siberia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Numerous monuments of ancient cave painting - petroglyphs are wide spread in the Yenisei region, on the vast territory from Evenkiya to Tuva.
Peculiar Mecca of ancient men is an area of confluence the Tuba and the Yenisei in the south of the Krasnoyarsk territory.
Mountains located on both banks of the Yenisei and the Tuba are sate with ancient cave drawings that cover time interval from the Stone Age to the end of the XIX-th century.
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 Giant Siberian lake from the last glacial
It is thus noteworthy that the results on dating of the youngest dammed-lake deposits in the periglacial zone, using dating and correlation methods different from those of the terrace stratigraphy school, happen to coincide with a revision of views on the age of the upper moraine.
On the right slope of the Yenisei river valley, which is formed by Proterozoic granite-gneiss, the series of cores revealed green-brown, brown and grey-brown clays and silts, covering two low terraces and two high terrace-like surfaces in the Yenisei river valley and slopes dividing them (fig 4).
For instance, on the left bank of the Yenisei near Yukseevo village (57N) in the outcrop of 16m terrace, it is visible that green-grey silts of the late Wurm 8-10 m thick, are crossed by pseudomorphs along ice veins.
www.esd.ornl.gov /projects/qen/lake.html   (5892 words)

  
 Master: Yenisei River
The Yenisei River is a 4,129-km-long (2,566-mi) waterway often considered the boundary between eastern and western Siberia; it is the fourth-longest river in Asia and the second-longest in Russia.
The Yenisei proper is formed by the confluence of the Bolshoi, or Great, and the Maly, or Little, Yenisei, at Kyzyl in the Tannu Ola Mountains.
The Yenisei area was settled by Cossacks and fur traders during the early 17th century; exploration of the river began during the 18th century and continued into the 19th and 20th centuries.
cr.middlebury.edu /public/russian/Bulgakov/public_html/yeniseimap.html   (180 words)

  
 Telesputnik Magazine - Number 5/ - Science and Engineering
Development of "Yenisei" (for transmission and reception of still pictures) and "Seliger" (for transmission and reception of moving objects) units was parallel.
The works on conjunction of the "Yenisei" television equipment with all the radio facilities of "Luna-3" interplanetary automatic station were started in June-July, 1959 in research-and-production association, which coordinated and headed development of all the radio systems of the "Luna-3".
Preparedness of "Yenisei-I" and "Yenisei-II" receiver units for operation had to be reported about not later than on October, 4, i.e., to the moment of "Luna-3" launching (it also concerned all other units of the testing ground system).
www.telesputnik.ru /archive/all/n5/50_eng.html   (1875 words)

  
 Welcome to the Dula-Siberia Company!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Krasnoyarsk territory's capital, beautiful city was founded on the mighty Yenisei River.
370 years later at the Kacha and Yenisei rivers junction, in the area of the first Krasnoyarsk fort (1628) the City's founder monument was established.
Stretched along the Yenisei banks Krasnoyarsk is the largest industrial, transport, cultural and scientific center of Siberia today.
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 Sokol Tours: Destinations: Waterways: Yenisei River Basin, Eastern Siberia (Russia)
Final destination of the River is Kara sea of Arctic ocean, where Yenisei empties millions of cubic meters of water through a 250 mi (400 km) long and 150km wide delta.
In the spring ice of upper Yenisei starts melting earlier than the lower parts of northern section, causing extensive flooding and breath taken views.
Sturgeon and salmon are fished in the Yenisei's lower reaches, which is the main source for living to many local villagers.
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 Baikal: General Backgrounds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Angara source is located at the Baikal level, that is, at an altitude of 456 m above sea level, at the point of confluence into Yenisei at an altitude of 76 m above sea level, i.e.
The Angara river at the point of confluence into the Yenisei carries 120 cubic km of water per year, and the Yenisei only 100 cubic km by the Angara mouth.
But geomorphologically and historically the Yenisei is a principal river, and the Angara is only one of its largest tributaries.
www.baikal.ru /old.baikal.ru/baikal/faq/b4e.htm   (453 words)

  
 Yat-kha, Albert Kuvezin Tuvan throat singing punk band. New 2005 Album "Re-Covers" released June 13th   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In this valley, one side leads out to the Great Yenisei, the other to Kaa-Khem How fine a childhood, how beautiful a place, golden when the sun shines.
Yenisei runs and kicks his banks by his waves, if an enemy invades we have a lot of power to destroy him.
It would be good to take a log or a boat to go through Yenisei river to a better place.
www.yat-kha.com /html/what/cd_YP.php   (553 words)

  
 Geology & Geophysics, 2001, V 42, N 7.
The southwestern surroundings of the craton include the Early Precambrian blocks of the Yenisei Range (in the center) and the northern blocks of East Sayan composed of fold and thrust belts or marginal basement uplifts.
The South Yenisei Range (Angara-Kan block) involves the greatest portion of the etamorphic And gneous complexes of the southwestern craton surroundings.
The removal of pressure was accompanied by magmatic underplating in the lower crust, which induced rheomorphic melting and homogenization of metamorphic complexes with a granite-like lithology and formation of porphyroblastic granitoid plutons.
library.iem.ac.ru /geo-geop/7-4201.html   (1959 words)

  
 TOURISM INDUSTRY OVERVIEW OF THE KRASNOYARSK REGION
The region located in the northern part of Central Siberia includes the Taimyr and Evenkia Autonomous Districts, and the Turukhan, Yenisei, and Northern-Yenisei areas of the Krasnoyarsk region.
The length of the Mana is 475 kilometers, the difference between the highest and lowest points of the river is 1,292 meters, and the stream’s speed is approximately 5 kilometers per hour.
The Mana River is a tributary stream of the powerful Yenisei River, and is considered one of the most beautiful rivers of Eastern Siberia.
www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/isa/011017krastour.htm   (2325 words)

  
 The Ket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
It is thought that the ancestors of the modern Kets evolved in the Bronze Epoch in the south of the interfleuve of the Ob and Yenisei rivers.
In fact, along the Kanu River (the right-hand bank of the Yenisei River), the Kott were distributed, the banks of the Usolka and Ona rivers (the left-hand banks of the lower reaches of the Angara River) were home to the Asan, on the banks of the Yenisei River
The folklore of the Ket was represented by mythological and cosmogonic plots relating on the origin of the world and the man. The most famous folk tale characters are Albe, who turned into a stone range on the eastern bank of the Yenisei River and the warrior Balyne.
www.raipon.org /Web_Database/kety.html   (1385 words)

  
 Yenisei on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
It flows westward, then generally north, past Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Yeniseisk, and Igarka to enter the Kara Sea through a c.250 mi (400 km) long estuary composed of Yenisei Bay and Yenisei Gulf.
MOTOR-SHIP, BARGE COLLIDE ON YENISEI RIVER, 3 MEN MISSING.
POSSIBILITY OF ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE ON THE YENISEI RIVER.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/Y/Yenisei.asp   (340 words)

  
 Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
Energy Citations Database (ECD) Document #135986 - Contribution from the Yenisei River to the total radioactive contamination of the Kara Sea
Availability information may be found in the Availability, Publisher, Research Organization, Resource Relation and/or Author (affiliation information) fields and/or via the "Full-text Availability" link.
Contribution from the Yenisei River to the total radioactive contamination of the Kara Sea
www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=135986   (194 words)

  
 Yenisei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
And under her hood she wore a knitted hat with handles.
We walked along Prospekt Mira, strolling for a long time, freezing, and turned towards the iced-over Yenisei River.
When we first came to Krasnoyarsk the Yenesei had already frozen.
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 AllRefer.com - Yenisei (CIS And Baltic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Yenisei (CIS And Baltic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
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The Yenisei's upper course is turbulent, with many rapids, and has a great hydroelectric generating potential; there are giant hydroelectric stations at Krasnoyarsk and at Sayan.
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 Yenisei River - Siberia - Reviews of Yenisei River - TripAdvisor
Yenisei River - Siberia - Reviews of Yenisei River - TripAdvisor
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