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River steamers first came to the Yenisei River in 1864 and were brought in from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom across the icy Kara Sea. One was the steamer Nikolai. The steamship Thames attempted to explore the river, overwintered in 1876, but was damaged in the ice and eventually wrecked in the river.
The Yenisey Gulf (Russian: Енисейский залив, Yeniseysky zaliv) is a large and long estuary through which the lower Yenisey flows into the Kara Sea.. The Yenisey Gulf and its islands belong to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of the Russian Federation and is part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve, the largest nature reserve of Russia.
The river receives numerous tributaries, the largest of them are right Toora-Khem, Khamsara, Systyg-Khem. [1] The basin of the Bolshoy Yenisey is a mountainous region, which borders in the north and east are the administrative boundaries of Tuva with Buryatia, Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai. The river flows through the Tuva basin in its ...
Dams on the Yenisei River (2 P) P. Populated places on the Yenisei River (19 P) Pages in category "Yenisei River" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 ...
Kem (Russian: Кемь) is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russia. [1] It is a left bank tributary of the Yenisey. [1] The name of the river Kem comes from the ancient word "kem" or "hem" that has a meaning of "great river". [2] This toponymy is very popular and widespread from Siberia up to Karelia and Finland. [2]
The plateau occupies a great part of central Siberia between the Yenisei and Lena rivers. It is located in the Siberian Platform and extends over an area of 3,500,000 km 2 (1,400,000 sq mi), between the Yenisei in the west and the Central Yakutian Lowland in the east.
The Yenisey Range is a subrange of the Central Siberian Plateau.It is a relatively low range, cut across by swampy intermontane basins. The range stretches along the right bank of the Yenisey in the southwestern edge of the plateau, between the valley of the Kan River in the south and the Stony Tunguska in the north, beyond which rises the Tunguska Plateau.