Editing Yenisei (section)

==History==
Nomadic tribes such as the [[Ket people]] and the [[Yugh people]] have lived along the banks of the Yenisey since ancient times, and this region is the location of the [[Yeniseian languages|Yeniseian language family]]. The Ket, numbering about 1000,  are the only survivors today of those who originally lived throughout central southern Siberia near the river banks. Their extinct relatives included the Kotts, Assans, Arins, Baikots and Pumpokols who lived further upriver to the south. The modern Ket lived in the eastern middle areas of the river before being assimilated politically into Russia during the 17th through 19th centuries.<ref>{{cite web
|last=Vajda
|first=Edward G.
|url=http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/ket.htm
|title=The Ket and Other Yeniseian Peoples
|access-date=2006-10-27
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406214043/http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/ket.htm
|archive-date=6 April 2019
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>

Some of the earliest known evidence of [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] origins was found in the Yenisey Valley in the form of [[stelae]], stone [[monoliths]] and memorial tablets dating from between the seventh and ninth centuries AD, along with some documents that were found in China's [[Xinjiang region]]. The written evidence gathered from these sources tells of battles fought between the Turks and the [[Chinese people|Chinese]] and other legends. There are also examples of [[Uyghurs|Uyghur]] poetry, though most have survived only in Chinese translation.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Halman |first1=Talah |title=A Millenium of Turkish Literature |pages=6}}</ref>

[[File:Le Tour du monde-08-p204.jpg|thumb|right|The schooner {{MV|Iermak}} and the {{MV|Embryo}} on their ill-fated 1862 voyage of exploration to the gulf of the Yenissei under Krusenstern]]
Wheat from the Yenisey was sold by Muslims and Uighurs during inadequate harvests to Bukhara and Soghd during the [[Tahirid]] era.<ref name="Blanchard2001">{{cite book|author=Ian Blanchard|title=Mining, Metallurgy and Minting in the Middle Ages: Asiatic supremacy, 425-1125|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zo2UVs_Sr68C&pg=PA271|year=2001|publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag|isbn=978-3-515-07958-7|pages=271–272|access-date=25 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109163955/https://books.google.com/books?id=Zo2UVs_Sr68C&pg=PA271|archive-date=9 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

Russians first reached the upper Yenisey in 1605, travelling from the Ob, up the [[Ket (river)|Ket]], portaging and then down the Yenisey as far as the [[Sym River|Sym]].<ref name="Fisher1943">{{cite book
  | last = Fisher
  | first = Raymond Henry
  | title = The Russian Fur Trade, 1550-1700
  | publisher = University of California Press
  | year = 1943
}}</ref>

In 1862 [[Paul Theodor von Krusenstern]] attempted to navigate with two ships from [[Murmansk]] through the [[Kara Sea]] to the delta of the river Yenissei, but unfortunately was shipwrecked before obtaining success.<ref name=ptvk1>Naufrage du lieutenant Krusenstern dans les glaces de la mer de Kara (1863, in Le Tour du monde Volume 8 pp.203-208)</ref>

During [[World War II]], [[Nazi Germany]] and the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese Empire]] agreed to [[Axis powers negotiations on the division of Asia|divide Asia]] along a line that followed the Yenisey to the border of China and then along the border of China and the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>[[Gerhard Weinberg|Weinberg, Gerhard L]]. ''Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders'' Cambridge, England, United Kingdom:2005--Cambridge University Press [http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/52548/frontmatter/9780521852548_frontmatter.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917022806/http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/52548/frontmatter/9780521852548_frontmatter.pdf|date=17 September 2011}}</ref>