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The 'Angara River' () is a 1779 km (1105 miles) long river in Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai, south-east Siberia, Russia. It is the only river flowing out of Lake Baikal, and is a headwater of the Yenisei River.^[1]

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Hydroelectricity

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Hydroelectricity

The river has a large hydroelectric capability and is one of the world's greatest sources of hydroelectric power. There is a cascade of four hydroelectric dams (listed in orographic sequence): Irkutskaya, Bratskaya, Ust-Ilimskaya, and Boguchanskaya (the construction of the latter one is in progress).
The Bratskaya power plant is one of the largest in the world (ca. 4,500 MW), and the corresponding Bratsk Reservoir is the largest artificial lake in the world. It's dam is 160 meters high. The Irkutskaya power plant has a power of 660 MW.^[2]

Footnotes

1. Angara River
2. Kodar

External links

★ Angara River, southeast-central Russia

★ Angara River

★ The new bridge over the Angara River - text & photos

★ Angara River photo

★ Map of region showing mouth of Angara River

★ Photo of river and dam