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a dog standing on the bank of the river Yenisei in 40 km from Krasnoyarsk (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

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Yenisei is the great river in Russian, the largest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean. It is the central of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob River and the Lena River). Rising in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course to the Yenisei Gulf in the Kara Sea, draining a large part of central Siberia, the longest stream following the Yenisei-Angara-Selenga-Ider river system. 

One of the largest rivers in the world: the length of the river from the confluence of the Big and Little Yenisei Yenisei - 3487 km, from the effluent of the Lesser Yenisei - 4287 km, from the effluent of the Big Yenisey - 4092 (4123) [7] km. The length of the waterway: Ider - Selenge - Lake Baikal - Angara - Yenisei River is 5075 km. On the area of ​​the basin (2580 thousand km ²) Yenisei in 2nd place among the rivers of Russia (after Obi) and 7 th among the world's rivers. The Yenisei basin is characterized by sharp asymmetry: its right-bank part is 5.6 times higher than the left bank.