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Irtysh

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Irtysh River (????? ; Kazakh language|Kazakh: Ertis / ???i? ; Tatar language|Tatar: Irtes / ?????) a river in Asia, the chief tributary of the Ob River|river Ob. It is actually longer than the Ob to their confluence. Irtysh's main affluent is Tobol River. The Ob-Irtysh form a major basin in Asia, encompassing most of Western Siberia and the Altai mountains.

From its source as Kara-Irtysh (Black Irtysh) in the Altai|Mongolian Altai mountains in Xinjiang, China, Irtysh flows NW through Lake Zaysan, Kazakhstan until it meets the Ob River|Ob near Khanty-Mansiysk in western Siberia, Russia after 4,248 km (2,640 mi).

Passenger, freight boats and tankers navigate most of the river between April and October, when it is not frozen. Omsk is home to the headquarters of the state-owned Irtysh River Shipping Company, and the largest river port in Western Siberia. Major hydroelectric plants at ?skemen| Ust-Kamenogorsk and Bakhtarminsk (1959) use the Irtysh near the Kazakhstan-Chinese border. An Irtysh-Karaganda irrigation canal supplies water to the dry Kazakstani Steppes.

The river banks were occupied by ethnic Chinese|Chinese, Kalmyks, and Mongols until the Russians arrived in the late 16th century. The Russian conquest of the Irtysh basin was completed by the early 19th century.

The main cities on the Irtysh, from source to mouth, are:
  • in Kazakhstan: Ust-Kamenogorsk|?skemen/Ust-Kamenogorsk, Semey|Semey/Semipalatinsk, Pavlodar.

  • in Russia: Omsk, Tara, Russia|Tara, Tobolsk, Khanty-Mansiysk.




  • Geography of China

  • Geography of Russia


Category:Rivers of China
Category:Rivers of Kazakhstan
Category:Altai
Category:Rivers of Russia

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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Irtysh".


Last Modified:   2005-11-10


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