Irkut ( drill. Erhүү mγren ) is a river in Buryatia and the Irkutsk region , the left tributary of the Angara .
| Irkut | |
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| Boer. Erhүү mγren | |
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| Characteristic | |
| Length | 488 km |
| Swimming pool | 15 000 km² |
| Water consumption | 140 m³ / s |
| Watercourse | |
| Source | Ilchir |
| • Height | 1875 m |
| • Coordinates | |
| Mouth | Hangar |
| • Coordinates | |
| Location | |
| Water system | Angara → Yenisei → Kara Sea |
| A country |
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| Regions | Buryatia , Irkutsk region |
| HWR code | |
The length is 488 km (with the Black Irkut River ), the catchment area is 15,000 km² [2] .
Content
- 1 Geography
- 2 Settlements
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Geography
It originates in the mountain node Nuhu-Daban in the East Sayan Mountains at an altitude of 1875 m above sea level, flowing from Lake Ilchir . After merging with the Middle and White Irkut, it gets the name Irkut , and before that it is called Black Irkut . In the upper reaches it flows south-west, at the Munku-Sardyk massif it abruptly turns east, cuts through the Bolshoy Sayan ridge, separating the Tunkinsky Loaches from it. Further, for 200 km, it flows along the Tunkinskaya depression , where it receives the main tributaries - Ihe-Ukhgun , Bolshoi Zangisan , Tunku , Zun- Muren , Bolshaya Bystrya and others. There are rapids of 2-3 (4 in high water ) categories in the upper and 1-2 categories in the middle part [3] . It flows into the Angara along the left bank in the central part of the city of Irkutsk .
It freezes in late October, opens in late April - early May. Freezing lasts 150-180 days. Snow food (mainly due to high mountain snows) and rain. The catchment area is 15,780 km². The average annual water flow at the mouth is 140 m³ / s. The average long-term water consumption is 142 m³ / s, with the highest costs occurring in July-August, the lowest - in February-March.
Floating river. It has developed water tourism. According to its hydronym , the regional center is the city of Irkutsk (the first Cossack prison was set up in 1661 on the right bank of the Angara River, opposite the mouth of Irkut).
On the right bank of the Irkut River in the Tunka Valley , within the Elovsky Range, on the Tuyan site, fragmented remains of a primitive man, Upper Paleolithic tools and household items from 30 to 50 thousand years ago were found [4] (calibrated dates: 31,400-30,740 ln for sample 6, square 1, peak 69, No. 53, and> 49,700 for sample 1, square 2, peak 61, No. 56) [5] .
Settlements
Settlements on the river ( from source to mouth ): Mondy , Moygoty , Turan , Guzhira , Torah , Dalakhai , Shuluta , Tibelti , Shamanka , Mota , Vvedenskaya , Pionersk , Baklashi , Smolensk , Maksimovshchina , Irkutsk .
Notes
- ↑ Surface Water Resources of the USSR: Hydrological Understanding. T. 16. Angara-Yenisei region. Vol. 2. Hangar / ed. T.S. Kirillova, N.N. Korchazhnikova. - L .: Gidrometeoizdat, 1965 .-- 224 p.
- ↑ Irkut River . State Water Register . Date of treatment November 17, 2013.
- ↑ Kinyaev, V.V., Mazurov V.V., Parshikov M.I. Water routes of Altai and Sayan. - Tula, 1994, 84 c. - Part 2. Sayans. R. Irkut.
- ↑ ISU archaeologists discovered the remains of an ancient person , 2018
- ↑ Report of anthropological findings on the Paleolithic site of Tuyan in the Tunkinsky rift valley (South-Western Baikal region)
Links
- Irkut // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
- Irkut // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- M.N. Melkheev. Irkut // Geographical names of Eastern Siberia. Irkutsk and Chita regions . - Irkutsk: East Siberian Book Publishing House, 1969.
- Description of the flooded sections of Irkut. Diaries of water tourists
- Irkut - Legend, History