Angara River flows across the territory of Eastern Siberia.She - the only one flowing out of Lake Baikal.It also is the largest tributary of the Yenisei.Its length is one thousand seven hundred seventy-nine kilometers.
catchment area has an area of 1.04 million square kilometers.Water consumption is on average four thousand five hundred thirty cubic meters per second.Numerous reservoirs perform seasonal and perennial flow regulation.In the pool, there are about forty thousand different streams and rivers.Their total length is more than one hundred and sixty thousand kilometers.
Istok Angara, as already mentioned - in Lake Baikal.Here in the middle of the bed sticking out of the water Shaman-stone.He closes the channel, as a natural dam.There is a very beautiful legend about the origin of the river.Daughter of Baikal, having escaped from his power, rushed to the Yenisei.The enraged father tried to stop her daughter and threw her behind a huge rock.Since that time, he stands in the way.It is believed that if it is removed, the Baikal flood all around.
to the confluence of the Yenisei river Angara flows in the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Irkutsk Region.At first it flows mainly to the north, then turns west (with the Ust-Ilim).In the Yenisei falls far from Lesosibirsk.
tributaries Angara Oka, Irkut, Oia, Ilim, Taseeva.You can also consider and empties into the lake of the Upper Angara, Barguzin, Selenga.
Among large cities on the coast should be noted Angarsk, Sibirskoye Ust-Ilim Bratsk, Boguchani and others.
Angara River materially different elevation changes - up to three hundred and eighty meters.At the same time it is quite full-flowing from the outset.Because of this it differs huge hydropower potential.For its implementation has been built Angara cascade of stations: Ust-Ilim Bratsk, Irkutsk.The construction of the fourth plant - the Boguchanskaya HPP.It is planned and construction of power plants Nizhneangarsk stage.Thus, the entire pool can become a cascade of power plants.In addition to electricity, the construction of the stations will ensure the development of navigation on all over.It should be noted that the reservoir of Irkutsk power in the upstream reaches fifty-five kilometers.
should be noted that after the construction of the Irkutsk station in the river water level rose significantly.In this connection, from the Shaman stone it was only the tip, whose height meter and a half.At one time, seriously discussed the project to undermine stone.In this case, the water would go smoothly in the turbine of the lake.However, the project was not implemented due to the fact that, according to environmentalists, it would entail geological displacement due to the destruction of the stone.
It should also be said that the Angara River is characterized by a relatively unfavorable environmental conditions.It leaves a huge volume of wastewater.In their number is second only to the Volga basin.Water quality after the first major city of Irkutsk is estimated, from moderately to very dirty.
