The city of Norilsk
It got its name from the name of the area where it is located: the Norilsk River (Norilka) flows near the city (the basin of the Pyasina River), the city itself is located near the Norilsk Mountains. Travelers Khariton Laptev, A.F. Middendorf, F.B. Schmidt mention the Norilsk River and the Norilsk Mountains in their reports.
There are many versions of the origin of the name of the Norilka River. According to one version, the name of the river came from the word "norilo" – a long thin pole that stretched the bowstring of the shutter nets under the ice from hole to hole, according to another – the name of the river and, accordingly, the city comes from the Evenk word "narus" or Yukaghir "nyoril", which means "swamps".
The city of Dudinka
The coldest (rarely, but sometimes up to -57 ° Celsius) and the northernmost (69°21's) city on the planet. It is located on the right bank of the river. The Yenisei River at the confluence with the Dudinka River, named after the first Russian artisan Dudin, who settled here in the first half of the XVII century, just above the mouth of the river. And the city got its name from the name of the Dudinka river.
According to another version, the name of the city came from the Russian transcription of the Evenk words "dugin" (channel, island between channels, mouth of the channel) and "dugu" (cape of the river). The accusative case of the word "dugin" sounds like "duginma". And finally, according to the third version, from the Russian transcription of the word Encev–somatov (in the XVI - XVII centuries they roamed in the area of modern Dudinka and adjacent areas along the right and left banks of the Yenisei) "kaduta" ("purple place") – that's what they called the place on the high right bank of the Yenisei, where Dudinka now stands.
Igarka City
It is located on the shore of the Igara channel of the Yenisei, 1330 km north of Krasnoyarsk in a straight line (the distance along the Yenisei is about 1800 km). It is located beyond the Arctic circle, in the permafrost zone. The city was named after the channel on which it was located, and that, in turn, after the local fisherman Egor Shiryaev, whose name the locals turned from "Egorka" into "Igarka". Now it is a port accessible to ships from the Yenisei Bay.
The village of Turukhansk
It is located at the confluence of the Lower Tunguska with the Yenisei, 1,474 km north of Krasnoyarsk. The population is 4.8 thousand inhabitants. Founded in 1607 as a winter quarters, since 1619 it has been inhabited by settlers of the burnt-out city of Mangazeya.
The former Turukhansk became the village of Staroturukhansk, and the modern village with the name Turukhansk (the administrative center of the district) was previously named Novoturukhansk. In the 19th and 20th centuries, it was a place of exile (including I. V. Stalin in 1914-1916).
The attraction of the village is the Trinity Church (late 18th – early 19th century). In Turukhansk there is a fish factory, an oil and gas exploration expedition, a river port, an airport, a museum of revolutionaries Y.M. Sverdlov and S.S. Spandaryan.
The Lower Tunguska River
In the 17th century, Russian explorers named the river Nizhnyaya Tunguska. Tunguska – because Tunguska (modern Evenki) lived on its shores, and the definition of Nizhnyaya distinguished it from the other two Tunguska.
The Podkamennaya Tunguska River.
This is a rapid river, characterized by a kind of wild beauty. Its length is 1865 km. It is named Podkamennaya because it makes its way to the Yenisei through many hundreds of kilometers through stone cliffs. After 40 km, the Osinovsky threshold begins – the legendary narrow canyon, which is overcome with great difficulty. The passage through the threshold is narrow (700 m) and winding. Two steamers cannot separate, and the traffic here is one-way.
Village Vorogovo
It was founded more than 350 years ago during the development of Siberia in the 17th century by Cossacks. The population is represented by different nationalities: Russians, Germans, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Keto. Now it has about 2,000 thousand people, local residents organize markets with a wide variety of goods and souvenirs of local craftsmen at the pier by the arrival of the ship.
Village Yartsevo
It is located in the middle reaches of the Yenisei River between two large left tributaries — the Kas and Sym rivers. A local market is also organized here for the arrival of the ship.
The city of Yeniseisk
It is located on the Yenisei plain, on the left bank of the Yenisei, below the confluence of the Angara River, 330 km north of Krasnoyarsk. The city of Yeniseisk is called an "open-air museum", the urban development includes 94 architectural monuments.
The complex of the Transfiguration Monastery and four churches are unique examples of Siberian Baroque, built in the middle and second half of the XVIII century. They are close to the Russian temples of the previous century in terms of planning and spatial structure and picturesque decor.
The stone civil buildings of Yeniseisk are mainly two–storey houses along the main street, on the embankment and central squares.
Strelka is the place where the Angara flows into the Yenisei
There are many beautiful legends about the beautiful Angara, the only daughter of the old man of Lake Baikal, and the mighty handsome Yenisei. Baikal was against their wedding, following his fleeing daughter, he abandoned the palace, which was supposed to be her wedding gift. The palace fell apart into many fragments, they became the Strelkov threshold, and the largest stone is the Guard Island. Nothing could stop the wayward daughter on the way to the Yenisei: neither the ferocious rapids, nor the scattering of stones, nor the cliffs that stood in the way of the fugitive.
Stolby Nature Reserve
The natural boundaries of the protected area are the right tributaries of the river. Yenisei: in the northeast is the Bazaiha River, in the south and southwest are the Mana and Bolshaya Sluznevka Rivers. From the northeast, the territory borders with the city of Krasnoyarsk.
The reserve was founded in 1925 on the initiative of the residents of the city to preserve the natural complexes around the picturesque syenite remnants – "pillars". Currently, its area is 47,219 hectares.
The main attraction of the reserve are the rocks. The name "Pillars" is common to all rocks, although all rocks and even some stones have their own names. There are directly "Pillars" – rocks open to tourists, and "Wild pillars" – rocks located deep in the reserve, access to which is limited.
Irkutsk city
It is located at the confluence of the Irkut River (hence the name) with the Angara. Irkutsk was founded in 1661, and received city status in 1686. Currently, Irkutsk is the cultural, historical, scientific and administrative center of the Irkutsk region. The population of Irkutsk is about 600 thousand people. Irkutsk is one of the five most visited cities in Russia by tourists. The main attraction of Irkutsk, paradoxical as it sounds, is Lake Baikal, which is located 55 km from the city center. Other attractions include the ancient buildings of Irkutsk.
Angara River
Only the Great River can flow out of the Great Lake. Especially if it flows out alone. Angara annually removes about 60 cubic kilometers of water from Lake Baikal through its source, a kilometer–wide gap in the Primorsky Ridge. Most rivers are born from a barely noticeable streamlet, which only after many tens of kilometers, having absorbed many tributaries, turns into a full-flowing river. The Angara immediately emerges from Lake Baikal in a mighty wide stream and, having crossed the Shamanic threshold, rushes north towards the Yenisei.
The word "angara" has the semantic meaning of "mouth of an animal", "mouth", in a figurative sense – "gorge", "cleft". Words similar in sound and similar in meaning are found in the languages of all the Baikal peoples, therefore, science finds it difficult to determine which people gave the name to the Angara, and the name can be considered international.
Lake Baikal
It is a unique creation of nature. The lake is located in the central part of Asia, in the south of Eastern Siberia, delimits the Irkutsk region and the Republic of Buryatia. Baikal is the deepest lake on Earth and the largest freshwater body with high–quality clean water. Its maximum depth is 1,642 meters.
Baikal water is unique and amazing, just like Lake Baikal itself. It is extremely transparent, clean and saturated with oxygen. In not so long ago, it was considered curative, and diseases were treated with its help.
The village of Bolshye Koty.
It is located on the western shore of Lake Baikal, in the open valley of the Bolshye Koty River. There is a real taiga nearby, rich in mushrooms, berries and medicinal herbs, rare species of wild flowers: peonies, orchids, etc.
The cliff is creaking.
These are isolated steep cliffs composed of cemented Jurassic conglomerates, which represent a small stone ridge 60-80 m high. She divides the paddy of Big and Small Cats. Almost on the sheer part of the cliff, the entrance to the cave is visible, in which traces of a Neolithic human encampment were found.
Taltsy Museum of Wooden Architecture
The Taltsy Architectural and Ethnographic Museum is a unique collection of historical, architectural and ethnographic monuments of the XVII-XX centuries. It is located on the right bank of the Angara River. The open-air museum complex attracts visitors with the opportunity to get to know the material and spiritual culture of the peoples of the Baikal region directly.
Baikal Museum
There is only one museum of the lake in Russia – the Baikal Museum. The exhibition presents stuffed fish, as well as exhibits of representatives of the animal world, including those living on the bottom of Lake Baikal, preserved by fixing liquid. A mockup of the den of a seal and a squirrel seal. You will have the opportunity to examine in detail such Baikal inhabitants as: pike, perch, bream, roach, burbot, catfish, mirror carp, crucian carp, Baikal omul, white and black grayling, Baikal sturgeon, bullfishes and crustaceans. You can also admire such amazing animals as seals.
The Chersky Stone
This is a place where you can embrace at least a piece of the vast Lake Baikal. This is an observation deck, which is located in the mountains, above Listvyanka. The Chersky Stone is located at a low altitude – only 728 meters above sea level. The mountain is named after Jan Dominik Czerski, a Polish patriot who was exiled to Siberia and became, by the will of fate, a famous explorer of Lake Baikal.
Circum-Baikal Railway
KBZHD has never existed administratively. It was just a part of the Trans-Baikal Railway. Officially, there was only a Department for the construction of the Circum-Baikal Railway. It is a unique complex museum. Moreover, the road and the territory adjacent to it include not only numerous monuments of engineering and technical art (tunnels and galleries, bridges and viaducts, retaining walls), architectural monuments, but also various natural monuments – geology, mineralogy, zoology, biology.
Kyngyrga River
The canyon of the Kyngarga River (kyngarga – translated from Buryat as "drum") is located in the Tunka Valley, in the vicinity of the resort village of Arshan. It originates on the southern slope of the Tunka Loaches at an altitude of about 2000 m. It flows in a southerly direction, breaks through a steep slope, forming a canyon and 12 waterfalls, the largest of which has a drop height of 10 m (according to a sign near the waterfall). Arshan mineral springs are located at the outlet of the river into the Tunka Valley.
Tunka Valley
This is one of the natural pearls of Buryatia. It is a continuation of the Baikal basin, stretching for almost 200 km. The valley has a large number of natural and historical and cultural attractions, which makes it very attractive for recreation.
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