The Yenisei or Yenisey is the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean.
The confluence of the rivers Kaa-Khem and Piy-Khem near Kyzyl
The river flowing through the Shushensky Forest
Inclined plane at Krasnoyarsk Dam
Lake Baikal is a rift lake and the deepest lake in the world. It is situated in southern Siberia, Russia, between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Republic of Buryatia t
Yenisei
…in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course through the Krasnoyarsk Dam before draining into the Yenisey Gulf in the Kara Sea. Its basin comprises Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake. The Yenisey divides the Western Siberian Plain in the west from the Central Siberian Plateau to the east; it drains a large…
Lake Baikal's water is especially clear
Spring ice melt underway on Lake Baikal, on 4 May, 2012
Ice cover survey on the lake
Circle of thin ice, diameter of 4.4 km (2.7 mi) at the lake's southern tip, probably caused by convection