Angara River Totally Explained

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The Angara River is a 1779 km (1105 miles) long river in Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai, south-east Siberia, Russia. It is the only river flowing out of Lake Baikal, and is a headwater of the Yenisei River.
Leaving Lake Baikal near the settlement of Listvyanka, the Angara flows north past the Irkutsk Oblast's cities of Irkutsk, Angarsk, Bratsk, and Ust-Ilimsk. It then turns west, enters the Krasnoyarsk Krai, and falls into the Yenisei near Strelka (40 km north of Lesosibirsk).
Below its junction with the Ilim River the Angara has been known in the past as the Upper Tunguska .

Dams and reservoirs

The Angara is dammed by the dams of three major hydroelectric plants that have been constructed since the 1950s.

Irkutsk Dam, forming the Irkutsk Reservoir, which floods the the valley of the river from its source to Irkutsk, and slightly raises the water level in Lake Baikal.
Bratsk Dam, forming the Bratsk Reservoir.
Ust-Ilimsk Dam, at Ust-Ilimsk, forming the Ust-Ilimsk Reservoir.
Bogychany Dam (under construction), at Kodinsk

Navigation

The Angara is used for navigation on several isolated section:

from Lake Baikal to Irkutsk;

from Irkutsk to Bratsk;

on Ust-Ilimsk Reservoir;

from the Boguchany Dam (Kodinsk) to the river's fall into the Yenisei. The section between Ust-Ilimsk Dam and Boguchany Dam hasn't 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 won't enable through navigation from Lake Baikal to the Yenisei, as none of the existing 3 dams has been provided with locks for passing boats, nor will Boguchany dam have them.

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