Editing Yenisei (section)

==Navigation==
[[File:Jenissej 82.37757E 70.72558N.jpg|thumb|left|The Jenissej river gulf]]
River steamers first came to the Yenisei River in 1864 and were brought in from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom across the icy Kara Sea. One was the steamer ''Nikolai''. The steamship ''Thames'' attempted to explore the river, overwintered in 1876, but was damaged in the ice and eventually wrecked in the river. Success came with the steamers ''Frazer'', ''Express'' in 1878 and, the next year, ''Moscow'' hauling supplies in and wheat out. The ''Dalman'' reached Yeniseisk in 1881.

Imperial Russia placed river steamers on the massive river in an attempt to free up communication with land-locked Siberia. One, ''St. Nicholas'' took the future [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar Nicholas II]] on his voyage to Siberia, and later conveyed Vladimir Lenin to prison.

Engineers attempted to place river steamers in regular service on the river during the building of the Trans-Siberian Railway. The boats were needed to bring in the rails, engines and supplies. Captain [[Joseph Wiggins]] sailed the ''Orestes'' with rail in 1893. However, the sea and river route proved very difficult with several ships lost at sea and on the river. Both the Ob and Yenisey mouths feed into very long inlets, several hundred kilometres in length, which are shallow, ice bound and prone to high winds and thus treacherous for navigation. After the completion of the railway, river traffic reduced to only local service as the Arctic route and long river proved much too indirect a route.

The first recreation team to navigate the Yenisey's entire length, including its violent upper [[tributary]] in Mongolia, was an Australian-Canadian expedition completed in September 2001.  [[Ben Kozel]], Tim Cope, [[Colin Angus (explorer)|Colin Angus]] and Remy Quinter were on this team.  Both Kozel and Angus wrote books detailing this expedition,<ref>Five Months in a Leaky Boat: A River Journey Through Siberia, Kozel, 2003, Pan Macmillan</ref> and a documentary was produced for National Geographic Television.

A [[canal inclined plane]] was built on the river in 1985 at the [[Krasnoyarsk Dam]].<ref name="ShipliftsPianc1989">
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| isbn = 978-2-87223-006-8
| url         = https://books.google.com/books?id=hv48DrHv_l4C&q=%22Ship+lifts%22+China
| title       = Ship lifts: report of a Study Commission within the framework of Permanent ..
| publisher   = [[PIANC]]
| year        = 1989
| access-date  = 2011-12-14
| author      = Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses.
}}
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