Editing Angara (section)

==Navigation==
[[File:Embankment of the Angara in winter. Irkutsk, Russia.jpg|thumb|left|Embankment of the Angara in [[Irkutsk]]]]
[[File:Angara-Lake Baikal 1.JPG|thumb|The Angara at Talzy, near Lake Baikal]]
The Angara is navigable by modern watercraft on several isolated sections:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rusnet.nl/encyclo/a/angara.shtml |title=Angara River, southeast-central Russia |access-date=2006-10-26 |archive-date=2017-06-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610150347/http://www.rusnet.nl/encyclo/a/angara.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.e-river.ru/freight/map/Angara/ Енисейское пароходство: Ангара – судоходство и грузоперевозки] (Yenisey Shipping Company: Angara&nbsp;— navigation and cargo shipping) {{in lang|ru}}</ref><ref>[http://istok.angara.ru/mppss/BaikalRules.htm Особенности движения и стоянки судов по внутренним водным путям Восточно-Сибирского бассейна] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080313000811/http://istok.angara.ru/mppss/BaikalRules.htm |date=March 13, 2008 }} (Special navigation rules for the internal waterways of the Eastern Siberia Basin) {{in lang|ru}}</ref>
* from Lake Baikal to Irkutsk
* from Irkutsk to Bratsk
* on the Ust-Ilimsk Reservoir
* from the Boguchany Dam (Kodinsk) to the river's fall into the Yenisey.

The section between the Ust-Ilimsk Dam and the Boguchany Dam has not 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 will not enable through navigation from Lake Baikal to the Yenisey, as none of the existing three dams has been provided with a [[ship lock]] or a [[boat lift]], nor will the Boguchany Dam have one.

[[File:Kitchen-21-Russia-Angara-2815.jpg|thumb|The historical significance of the Angara and the [[Ilim River|Ilim]] as water routes is attested by a chain of villages along them (many of which, as well as the town of [[Ilimsk]], were flooded by modern dams) on this map from 1773. Note that the lower course of the Angara is labeled as ''Nizhnyaya Tunguska'' – the name which is currently applied to [[Nizhnyaya Tunguska River|another river]]]]

Despite the absence of a continuous navigable waterway, the Angara and its tributary the [[Ilim River|Ilim]] were of considerable importance for Russian colonization of Siberia since ca. 1630, when they (and the necessary portages) formed [[Siberian River Routes|important water routes]] connecting the Yenisey with Lake Baikal and the [[Lena River|Lena]]. The river lost its transportation significance after the construction of an overland route between [[Krasnoyarsk]] and [[Irkutsk]] and, later, the [[Trans-Siberian Railway]].