page_title: Yenisey
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Yenisey / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: 1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet D-6, 6th edition. Covers the U.S.S.R. Lambert Conformal Conic Projection.
context_page_description: The Yenisey, also romanised as Yenisei, Enisei, or Jenisej, is the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean. Rising in Mungaragiyn-gol in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course before draining into the Yenisey Gulf in the Kara Sea. The Yenisey divides the Western Siberian Plain in the west from the Central Siberian Plateau to the east; it drains a large part of central Siberia.
  It is the central one of three large Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean.
  The maximum depth of the Yenisey is 24 metres and the average depth is 14 metres. The depth of river outflow is 32 metres and inflow is 31 metres.
context_section_description: The Yenisey proper, from the confluence of its source rivers Great Yenisey and Little Yenisey at Kyzyl to its mouth in the Kara Sea, is 3,487 kilometres (2,167 mi) long. From the source of its tributary Selenga, it is 5,075 kilometres (3,153 mi) long. It has a drainage basin of 2,580,000 square kilometres (1,000,000 sq mi). The Yenisey flows through the Russian federal subjects Tuva, Khakassia and Krasnoyarsk Krai. The city of Krasnoyarsk is situated on the Yenisey.
caption: Map including the Yenisey River
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