Russia/Beautiful Irkutsk (Heart of Siberia) Part 19
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Irkutsk/Иркутск
Irkutsk, is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and one of the largest cities in Siberia. Population:650.000
The city proper lies on the Angara River, a tributary of the Yenisei, 72 kilometers (45 mi) below its outflow from Lake Baikal and on the bank opposite the suburb of Glaskovsk. The river, 580-meter (1,900 ft) wide, is crossed by the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Dam and three other bridges downstream.
The Irkut River, from which the town takes its name, is a smaller river that joins the Angara directly opposite the city. The main portion of the city is separated from several landmarks—the monastery, the fort and the port, as well as its suburbs—by another tributary, the Ida (or Ushakovka) River. The two main parts of Irkutsk are customarily referred to as the left bank and the right bank, with respect to the flow of the Angara River.
Irkutsk is situated in a landscape of rolling hills within the thick taiga that is typical in Eastern Siberia.
According to the regional plan, Irkutsk city will be combined with its neighboring industrial towns of Shelekhov and Angarsk to form a metropolitan area with a total population of over a million.
Irkutsk is the administrative center of the oblast and, within the framework of administrative divisions, it also serves as the administrative center of Irkutsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the City of Irkutsk an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[citation needed] As a municipal division, the City of Irkutsk is incorporated as Irkutsk Urban Okrug.
The coat of arms of Irkutsk features an old symbol of Dauria: a Siberian tiger with a sable in his mouth. When the coat of arms was devised in 1690, the animal was described as a tiger (babr, a bookish word of Persian derivation) with a sable in his mouth. This image had been used by the Yakutsk customs office from about 1642. It has its origin in a seal of the Siberia Khanate representing a sable and showcasing the fact that Siberia (or rather Yugra) was the main source of sable fur throughout the Middle Ages. (Actually, the English word sable is derived from the Russian sobol).
By the mid-19th century, the word babr had fallen out of common usage, but it was still recorded in the Armorial of the Russian Empire. Furthermore, the tigers became extinct in this part of Siberia. In the 1870s, a high-placed French heraldist with a limited command of Russian assumed that babr was a misspelling of bobr, the Russian word for beaver, and changed the wording accordingly. This modification engendered a long dispute between the local authorities, who were so confused by the revised description that they started to depict the babr as a fabulous animal, half-tiger and half-beaver.The Soviets abolished the image altogether, but it was restored following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Important roads and railways like the Trans-Siberian Highway (Federal M53 and M55 Highways) and Trans-Siberian Railway connect Irkutsk to other regions in Russia and Mongolia. The city is also served by the Irkutsk International Airport and the smaller Irkutsk Northwest Airport.
The Federal road and railway to Moscow and Vladivostok pass through the other side of the Angara River from central Irkutsk.
Trams are one major mode of public transit in Irkutsk. Other modes are trolleybus, bus, and fixed-route taxi, cycling (marshrutka). Irkutsk is characterized by an extreme variation of temperatures between seasons. It can be very warm in the summer, and very cold in the winter. However, Lake Baikal has a tempering effect thanks to which temperatures in Irkutsk are not as extreme as elsewhere in Siberia. The warmest month of the year is July, when the average temperature is +18 °C (64 °F), the highest temperature recorded being +37.2 °C (99.0 °F). The coldest month of the year is January, when the average temperature is −18 °C (0 °F), and record low of −49.7 °C (−57.5 °F). Precipitation also varies widely throughout the year, with July also being the wettest month, when precipitation averages 113 millimeters (4.4 in). The driest month is February, when precipitation averages only 7.6 millimeters (0.30 in). Almost all precipitation during the Siberian winter falls as flurry, dry snow.Wikipedia
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Irkutsk (Russian: Иркутск; IPA: [ɪrˈkutsk]) is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and one of the largest cities in Siberia.
The city proper lies on the Angara River, a tributary of the Yenisei, 72 kilometers (45 mi) below its outflow from Lake Baikal and on the bank opposite the suburb of Glaskovsk. The river, 580-meter (1,900 ft) wide, is crossed by the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Dam and three other bridges downstream.
Russia/Irkutsk (Walking tour 1) Part 20
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Irkutsk
Irkutsk (Russian: Иркутск; IPA: [ɪrˈkutsk]) is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and one of the largest cities in Siberia. Population:650.000
The city proper lies on the Angara River, a tributary of the Yenisei, 72 kilometers (45 mi) below its outflow from Lake Baikal and on the bank opposite the suburb of Glaskovsk. The river, 580-meter (1,900 ft) wide, is crossed by the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Dam and three other bridges downstream.
The Irkut River, from which the town takes its name, is a smaller river that joins the Angara directly opposite the city. The main portion of the city is separated from several landmarks—the monastery, the fort and the port, as well as its suburbs—by another tributary, the Ida (or Ushakovka) River. The two main parts of Irkutsk are customarily referred to as the left bank and the right bank, with respect to the flow of the Angara River.Irkutsk is situated in a landscape of rolling hills within the thick taiga that is typical in Eastern Siberia.
According to the regional plan, Irkutsk city will be combined with its neighboring industrial towns of Shelekhov and Angarsk to form a metropolitan area with a total population of over a million.
Irkutsk is the administrative center of the oblast and, within the framework of administrative divisions, it also serves as the administrative center of Irkutsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the City of Irkutsk an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[citation needed] As a municipal division, the City of Irkutsk is incorporated as Irkutsk Urban Okrug.
The coat of arms of Irkutsk features an old symbol of Dauria: a Siberian tiger with a sable in his mouth. When the coat of arms was devised in 1690, the animal was described as a tiger (babr, a bookish word of Persian derivation) with a sable in his mouth. This image had been used by the Yakutsk customs office from about 1642. It has its origin in a seal of the Siberia Khanate representing a sable and showcasing the fact that Siberia (or rather Yugra) was the main source of sable fur throughout the Middle Ages. (Actually, the English word sable is derived from the Russian sobol).
By the mid-19th century, the word babr had fallen out of common usage, but it was still recorded in the Armorial of the Russian Empire. Furthermore, the tigers became extinct in this part of Siberia. In the 1870s, a high-placed French heraldist with a limited command of Russian assumed that babr was a misspelling of bobr, the Russian word for beaver, and changed the wording accordingly. This modification engendered a long dispute between the local authorities, who were so confused by the revised description that they started to depict the babr as a fabulous animal, half-tiger and half-beaver.The Soviets abolished the image altogether, but it was restored following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Important roads and railways like the Trans-Siberian Highway (Federal M53 and M55 Highways) and Trans-Siberian Railway connect Irkutsk to other regions in Russia and Mongolia. The city is also served by the Irkutsk International Airport and the smaller Irkutsk Northwest Airport.
The Federal road and railway to Moscow and Vladivostok pass through the other side of the Angara River from central Irkutsk.
Trams are one major mode of public transit in Irkutsk. Other modes are trolleybus, bus, and fixed-route taxi, cycling (marshrutka). Irkutsk is characterized by an extreme variation of temperatures between seasons. It can be very warm in the summer, and very cold in the winter. However, Lake Baikal has a tempering effect thanks to which temperatures in Irkutsk are not as extreme as elsewhere in Siberia. The warmest month of the year is July, when the average temperature is +18 °C (64 °F), the highest temperature recorded being +37.2 °C (99.0 °F). The coldest month of the year is January, when the average temperature is −18 °C (0 °F), and record low of −49.7 °C (−57.5 °F). Precipitation also varies widely throughout the year, with July also being the wettest month, when precipitation averages 113 millimeters (4.4 in). The driest month is February, when precipitation averages only 7.6 millimeters (0.30 in). Almost all precipitation during the Siberian winter falls as flurry, dry snow.
Siberian Power Station (1956)
Irkutsk, Siberia, Soviet Union (USSR).
LTV. Cranes at work (title super over). GV. Pan along top of building site showing workmen perched up above ground. Men are working on making a new power station on the lake Baikal. TV. With crane in foreground. CU. Russian foreman. LV. Lake Baikal GV. Massive cement section hanging from crane. SV. Welder at work. TV. Workmen perched on scaffolding. TV. Construction, crane in action.
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Embassy Diplomats Visits Irkutsk Hydropower Station (1960)
Location: Irkutsk, Siberia, USSR, Soviet Union
High angle GV. Bridge over the Angara River, showing traffic. Various shots as a group of diplomats from Moscow embassies, (some of the men wearing Cossack style hats) tour Irkutsk.
Good shots of the rushing river Angara. GV. of the Irkutsk hydropower station which is built on the Angara River. Elevated LS. Vehicles on road en route to the power station. Elevated LS. of the power station showing part of the river. LS. of the diplomats inspecting the power station. LSs. of the diplomats on water bus along the Angara River and its surrounds. Good shots of Siberian scenery.
Various shots as the diplomats enjoy a meal called Shashlik which is made out of local fish called Harrius, cooked on an open fire on the river bank. LS. Electric pylon. MS. as the diplomats walk alongside the river. (Comb. Dupe Neg.)
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Russia/Irkuts Angara River Part 23
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Angara River:
The Angara River (Buryat: Ангар, Angar, lit. Cleft; Russian: Ангара́, Angará) is a 1,779-kilometer-long (1,105 mi) river in Siberia, which traces a course through Russia's Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai. It is the river that drains Lake Baikal and is the headwater tributary of the Yenisei River. It was formerly known as the Lower or Nizhnyaya Angara (distinguishing it from the Upper Angara). Below its junction with the Ilim, it was formerly known as the Upper Tunguska (Russian: Верхняя Тунгуска, Verkhnyaya Tunguska, distinguishing it from the Lower Tunguska) and, with the names reversed, as the Lower Tunguska.
Leaving Lake Baikal near the settlement of Listvyanka (at 51.867°N 104.818°E), the Angara flows north past the Irkutsk Oblast cities of Irkutsk, Angarsk, Bratsk, and Ust-Ilimsk. It then turns west, enters the Krasnoyarsk Krai, and falls into the Yenisei near Strelka (at 58.102°N 92.991°E, 40 kilometres (25 mi) south-east of Lesosibirsk).
The Angara is navigable by modern watercraft on several isolated sections:
from Lake Baikal to Irkutsk;
from Irkutsk to Bratsk;
on the Ust-Ilimsk Reservoir;
from the Boguchany Dam (Kodinsk) to the river's fall into the Yenisei.
The section between the Ust-Ilimsk Dam and the Boguchany Dam has not been navigable due to rapids. However, with the completion of the Boguchany Dam, and filling of its reservoir, at least part of this section of the river will become navigable as well. Nonetheless, this will not enable through navigation from Lake Baikal to the Yenisei, as none of the existing three dams has been provided with a ship lock or a boat lift, nor will the Boguchany Dam have one.
Despite the absence of a continuous navigable waterway, the Angara and its tributary the Ilim were of considerable importance for Russian colonization of Siberia since ca. 1630, when they (and the necessary portages) formed important water routes connecting the Yenisey with Lake Baikal and the Lena River. The river lost its transportation significance after the construction of an overland route between Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk and, later, the Trans-Siberian Railway.
A number of villages along the Angara and its tributaries (including the historic fort of Ilimsk on the Ilim), as well as numerous agricultural areas in the river valley, were flooded by these reservoirs. Due to its effects on the way of life of the rural residents of the Angara valley, dam construction has been criticized by a number of Soviet intellectuals, in particular the Irkutsk writer Valentin Rasputin both in his novel Farewell to Matyora and in his non-fiction book, Siberia, Siberia.Wikipedia
Страшное ДТП с автобусом на плотине ГЭС в Иркутске.
Водитель пассажирского автобуса №99 и 10 пассажиров доставлены в больницу после ДТП, которое произошло утром 1 августа на плотине Иркутской ГЭС.
Пассажирский автобус №99 столкнулся с автомобилем Kia Soul на плотине ГЭС в районе 9.00. По предварительной информации, автобус выехал на полосу встречного движения, где и столкнулся с иномаркой.
Водитель 1966 года рождения госпитализирован. Пассажиров обследуют медики. Пока нет информации, необходима ли им медицинская помощь.
Кроме того, установлена личность погибшей женщины, которая управляла автомобилем Kia Soul. В пресс-службе полиции также сообщили, что у неё остался 4-летний сын. О личности погибшей пассажирки автобуса ничего не известно.
Следователями специализированного следственного отдела по расследованию ДТП Главного следственного управления ГУ МВД России по Иркутской области проводится доследственная проверка обстоятельств случившегося.
Taltsy Museum - Museum of Wooden Architecture Irkutsk region
The Taltsy Museum (Russian: Тальцы), located on the Angara 47 kilometers (29 mi) South of Irkutsk, is an open-air museum of Siberian traditional architecture. Numerous old wooden buildings from villages in the Angara valley, which have been flooded after the construction of the Bratsk Dam and Ust-Ilimsk Dam, have been transported to the museum and reassembled there. One of the centerpieces of the collection is a partial recreation of the 17th-century ostrog (fortress) of Ilimsk, which consists of the original Spasskaya Tower and the Church of Our Lady of Kazan transported from the flooded ostrog in the mid-1970s, to which an exact modern copy of another tower of the ostrog and the Southern wall of the fortress were added in the early 2000s
11 сентября 2018 Осеннее настроение Братск Сибирь Россия
September 11, 2018, + 13 ° С, Autumn mood // Bratsk, Siberia, Russia. A trip from the right bank to the residential area Energetik, Bratsk, Irkutsk region, Russia. Bratsk hydropower plant on the Angara River. Beautiful autumn.
11 сентября 2018, +13° С, Осеннее настроение Братск Сибирь Россия. Поездка с Правого берега в жилой район Энергетик города Братск Иркутской области Россия. Братская ГЭС на реке Ангара. Красивая осень.
11. September 2018, + 13 ° С, Herbstliche Stimmung Bratsk Sibirien Russland. Eine Reise vom rechten Ufer zum Wohngebiet Energetik, Bratsk, Irkutsk, Russland. Bratsk Wasserkraftwerk auf dem Angara River. Schöner Herbst.
11 de septiembre de 2018, + 13 ° С, Autumn mood Bratsk Siberia Russia. Un viaje desde la orilla derecha a la zona residencial de Energetik, Bratsk, región de Irkutsk, Rusia. Planta hidroeléctrica Bratsk en el río Angara. Hermoso otoño.
11 בספטמבר 2018, + 13 ° C, מצב רוח סתיו Bratsk סיביר רוסיה. טיול מן הגדה הימנית לאזור המגורים אנרגטיק, בראטסק, אירקוטסק, רוסיה. בראטסק צמח הידרופוב על נהר אנגרה. סתיו יפה.
11 septembre 2018, + 13 ° С, ambiance d'automne Bratsk Sibérie Russie. Un voyage de la rive droite à la zone résidentielle Energetik, Bratsk, région d'Irkoutsk, en Russie. Centrale hydroélectrique de Bratsk sur la rivière Angara. Bel automne
11. september 2018, + 13 ° С, efterårstemning Bratsk Sibirien Rusland. En tur fra højre bred til boligområde Energetik, Bratsk, Irkutsk region, Rusland. Bratsk vandkraftværk på Angara-floden. Smukt efterår.
11 Eylül 2018, + 13 ° С, Sonbahar havası Bratsk Sibirya Rusya. Doğru bankadan Energetik, Bratsk, Irkutsk bölgesi, Rusya yerleşim bölgesine bir yolculuk. Angara Nehri üzerindeki Bratsk hidroelektrik santrali. Güzel sonbahar
11 सितंबर, 2018, + 13 डिग्री सेल्सियस, शरद ऋतु मूड ब्राट्स्क साइबेरिया रूस। दाहिने किनारे से आवासीय क्षेत्र एनरेटिक, ब्राट्स्क, इर्कुटस्क क्षेत्र, रूस में एक यात्रा। अंगारा नदी पर ब्राट्स्क जलविद्युत संयंत्र। सुंदर पतझड़
11. syyskuuta 2018, + 13 ° С, syksyn tunnelma Bratsk Siberia Venäjä. Matka oikealta rannalta asuinalueelle Energetik, Bratsk, Irkutskin alue, Venäjä. Bratskin vesivoimala Angaranjoelle. Kaunis syksy.
2018 년 9 월 11 일, + 13 ° С, 가을 분위기 Bratsk 시베리아 러시아. 오른쪽 은행에서 주거 지역 Energetik, Bratsk, 이르쿠츠크 지역, 러시아 여행. Angara 강에서 Bratsk 수력 발전소입니다. 아름다운 가을.
11 سبتمبر 2018 ، + 13 درجة مئوية ، مزاج الخريف براتسك سيبيريا روسيا. رحلة من الضفة اليمنى إلى منطقة سكنية Energetik ، Bratsk ، منطقة Irkutsk ، روسيا. محطة براتسك للطاقة الكهرومائية على نهر أنغارا. خريف جميل.
11. september 2018, + 13 ° С, høststemning Bratsk Sibiria Russland. En tur fra høyre bredd til boligområdet Energetik, Bratsk, Irkutsk-regionen, Russland. Bratsk vannkraftverk på Angara-elven. Vakker høst.
11 de setembro de 2018, + 13 ° С, Bratsk Siberia Rússia. Uma viagem da margem direita para a área residencial Energetik, Bratsk, região de Irkutsk, Rússia. Usina hidrelétrica de Bratsk, no rio Angara. Lindo outono.
2018年9月11日，+ 13°С，秋天心情布拉茨克西伯利亚俄罗斯。 从右岸到俄罗斯伊尔库茨克州布拉茨克Energetik住宅区的旅行。 安加拉河上的布拉茨克水电站。 美丽的秋天。
Siberian city built on gold and hydro-power
The world's largest and deepest lake Baikal is situated in the Irkutsk region in Eastern Siberia, home to some of Russia's most breathtaking natural wonders. Russia's main gold-producing sites also lie along its shores.
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Novosibirsk is the third most populous city in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg and the most populous city in Asian Russia, with a population of 1,473,754 as of the 2010 Census.It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District. The city is located in the southwestern part of Siberia on the banks of the Ob River adjacent to the Ob River Valley, near the large water reservoir formed by the dam of the Novosibirsk Hydro Power Plant, and occupies an area of 502.1 square kilometers (193.9 sq mi).
Water level falling in Lake Baikal
Water level falling in Lake Baikal
The water level of Lake Baikal, one of Russia's World Heritage sites, is dropping to a serious degree. The Russian government is considering issuing a state of emergency in the lake's neighboring regions.
The lake in Siberia is extremely clear and rich in wildlife. It's the world's largest freshwater lake by volume.
But its current water level is the lowest in 60 years due to lack of rain and other reasons.
Experts believe its depth will fall below 456 meters in early February, which is the minimum permissible level set by the Russian government.
The nation's Natural Resources and Environment Minister Sergei Donskoi said on Wednesday that he is considering declaring a state of emergency in the Republic of Buryatia and Irkutsk Province.
Local people depend on the lake's water, using it for hydroelectric power generation and as drinking water. The declining water level could impact the lives of about 70,000 people.
Experts predict the water level will continue to sink at least until April. The authorities plan to study soon the possibility of reducing use of the lake's water for hydroelectric power.
Beautiful Siberia - Yenisei River
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Beautiful Siberia and Yenisei River 80km above the Krasnoyarsk Dam during the summer time.
Krasnojarsk, Zarko Andjelic, Russia 2006
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Russia/Irkuts (Walking tour) Part 22
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Irkutsk
Irkutsk (Russian: Иркутск; IPA: [ɪrˈkutsk]) is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and one of the largest cities in Siberia. Population:650.000
The city proper lies on the Angara River, a tributary of the Yenisei, 72 kilometers (45 mi) below its outflow from Lake Baikal and on the bank opposite the suburb of Glaskovsk. The river, 580-meter (1,900 ft) wide, is crossed by the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Dam and three other bridges downstream.
The Irkut River, from which the town takes its name, is a smaller river that joins the Angara directly opposite the city. The main portion of the city is separated from several landmarks—the monastery, the fort and the port, as well as its suburbs—by another tributary, the Ida (or Ushakovka) River. The two main parts of Irkutsk are customarily referred to as the left bank and the right bank, with respect to the flow of the Angara River.Irkutsk is situated in a landscape of rolling hills within the thick taiga that is typical in Eastern Siberia.
According to the regional plan, Irkutsk city will be combined with its neighboring industrial towns of Shelekhov and Angarsk to form a metropolitan area with a total population of over a million.
Irkutsk is the administrative center of the oblast and, within the framework of administrative divisions, it also serves as the administrative center of Irkutsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the City of Irkutsk an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[citation needed] As a municipal division, the City of Irkutsk is incorporated as Irkutsk Urban Okrug.
The coat of arms of Irkutsk features an old symbol of Dauria: a Siberian tiger with a sable in his mouth. When the coat of arms was devised in 1690, the animal was described as a tiger (babr, a bookish word of Persian derivation) with a sable in his mouth. This image had been used by the Yakutsk customs office from about 1642. It has its origin in a seal of the Siberia Khanate representing a sable and showcasing the fact that Siberia (or rather Yugra) was the main source of sable fur throughout the Middle Ages. (Actually, the English word sable is derived from the Russian sobol).
By the mid-19th century, the word babr had fallen out of common usage, but it was still recorded in the Armorial of the Russian Empire. Furthermore, the tigers became extinct in this part of Siberia. In the 1870s, a high-placed French heraldist with a limited command of Russian assumed that babr was a misspelling of bobr, the Russian word for beaver, and changed the wording accordingly. This modification engendered a long dispute between the local authorities, who were so confused by the revised description that they started to depict the babr as a fabulous animal, half-tiger and half-beaver.The Soviets abolished the image altogether, but it was restored following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Important roads and railways like the Trans-Siberian Highway (Federal M53 and M55 Highways) and Trans-Siberian Railway connect Irkutsk to other regions in Russia and Mongolia. The city is also served by the Irkutsk International Airport and the smaller Irkutsk Northwest Airport.
The Federal road and railway to Moscow and Vladivostok pass through the other side of the Angara River from central Irkutsk.
Trams are one major mode of public transit in Irkutsk. Other modes are trolleybus, bus, and fixed-route taxi, cycling (marshrutka). Irkutsk is characterized by an extreme variation of temperatures between seasons. It can be very warm in the summer, and very cold in the winter. However, Lake Baikal has a tempering effect thanks to which temperatures in Irkutsk are not as extreme as elsewhere in Siberia. The warmest month of the year is July, when the average temperature is +18 °C (64 °F), the highest temperature recorded being +37.2 °C (99.0 °F). The coldest month of the year is January, when the average temperature is −18 °C (0 °F), and record low of −49.7 °C (−57.5 °F). Precipitation also varies widely throughout the year, with July also being the wettest month, when precipitation averages 113 millimeters (4.4 in). The driest month is February, when precipitation averages only 7.6 millimeters (0.30 in). Almost all precipitation during the Siberian winter falls as flurry, dry snow.Wikipedia
Irkutsk to Krasnoyarsk on the Trans-Siberian
Join me as I visit a Russian Orthodox church in Irkutsk, then travel to Krasnoyarsk on the Trans-Siberian train.
Yenisei River Cruise, Siberia, Russia (Part 2)
Yenisei River (Yenisey, Енисей) is considered the 7th largest river on our planet and the 2nd in Russia. The river is almost 5,500 kilometres (3,420 miles) long. Its watershed, which includes Lake Baikal, holds more water than any other river system. Yenisei's tributaries include famous Angara, Nizhnyaya Tunguska, and Tuba rivers.[
Yenisei (Yenisey, Енисей) rises in the mountains of Russia near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward through Siberia into the Kara Sea, Arctic Ocean. The river is often considered the boundary between Western and Eastern Siberia.
The Yenisei and its tributaries are rich in fish, including salmon and sturgeon. As the river flows north towards the sea it travels through taiga forests which change into a tundra.
Oka Sayanskaya - part 1/3 (eng)
A video clip from DVD Oka Sayanskaya (or The Breath of The Earth journey). Episodes include: Zhom Bolok river and waterfall, the valley of volcanoes, Kropotkin colcano, and mountain biking. This video has english soundtrack. -------- DVD information: In July of 2004 the Federation of Extreme Sports of the Republic of Buryatia Baikalski Extreme) with its friends from the cities of Novosibirsk and Irkutsk, Russia and also from the USA took a trip to the valley of Volcanoes in the Okinsky region of Burytiya and whitewater rafted down the Oka Sayanskaya River...
Vågen under finalen i Dam-VM 2012 i Irkutsk: Ryssland-Sverige
Vågen går på Stadio Trud i Irkutsk. Underbar inramning under VM-finalen då 11 600 åskådare såg Sverige vinna med 5-3 mot värdlandet Ryssland.