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==Geography== [[File:Operational Navigation Chart D-6, 6th edition.jpg|left|thumb|Map including the Yenisey River]] The Yenisey proper, from the confluence of its source rivers the [[Great Yenisey]] and [[Little Yenisey]] at [[Kyzyl]] to its mouth in the [[Kara Sea]], is {{convert|3487|km|sp=us|abbr=on}} long. From the source of its tributary the [[Selenga]], it is {{convert|5075|km|sp=us|abbr=on}} long.<ref name=bse>[http://bse.sci-lib.com/article037454.html Енисей], [[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]]</ref> It has a drainage basin of {{convert|2580000|km2|sp=us|abbr=on}}.<ref name=gvr>{{GVR|17010300112116100000014|Река Енисей}}</ref> The Yenisey flows through the Russian [[Federal subjects of Russia|federal subjects]] [[Tuva]], [[Khakassia]]{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} and [[Krasnoyarsk Krai]]. The city of [[Krasnoyarsk]] is situated far upstream on the Yenisey,<ref name=":0">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/08/a-year-on-the-yenisei-river/100580/|title=A Year on the Yenisei River|last=Alan Taylor|date=23 August 2013|magazine=[[The Atlantic]]|access-date=8 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140626035425/http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/08/a-year-on-the-yenisei-river/100580/|archive-date=26 June 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> and the industrial city of [[Norilsk]] is nearby on the Arctic Ocean's [[Taymyr Peninsula]]. ===Tributaries=== The largest tributaries of the Yenisey are, from source to mouth:<ref name=gvr/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/175644/|title=Yenisei River|last=C Michael Hogan|date=13 May 2012|publisher=[[Encyclopedia of Earth]]|access-date=23 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150517053251/http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/175644/|archive-date=17 May 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=15em}} * [[Little Yenisey]] (left) * [[Great Yenisey]] (right) * [[Khemchik]] (left) * [[Kantegir]] (left) * [[Abakan (river)|Abakan]] (left) * [[Tuba (river)|Tuba]] (right) * [[Mana (Russia)|Mana]] (right) * [[Bazaikha]] (right) * [[Kacha (river)|Kacha]] (left) * [[Kan (river)|Kan]] (right) * [[Angara]] (right) * [[Kem (Yenisey)|Kem]] (left) * [[Bolshoy Pit]] (right) * [[Sym (river)|Sym]] (left) * [[Dubches]] (left) * [[Podkamennaya Tunguska]] (right) * [[Bakhta (river)|Bakhta]] (right) * [[Yeloguy]] (left) * [[Nizhnyaya Tunguska]] (right) * [[Turukhan]] (left) * [[Kureyka]] (right) * [[Khantayka]] (right) * [[Bolshaya Kheta]] (left) * [[Tanama (river)|Tanama]] (left) {{div col end}}
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