Angara River
Noun
Meaning
a river in southeastern Siberia that flows northwest from Lake Baikal to become a tributary of the Yenisei River
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Examples
On the Angara River in 1701 he met and plundered a merchant's boat loaded with Chinese goods.
Owen Lattimore-The Mongols of Manchuria, p. 165 The Buryats lived along the Angara River and its tributaries at this time.
On 6–7 February Kolchak and his prime minister Victor Pepelyaev were shot and their bodies thrown through the ice of the frozen Angara River, just before the arrival of the White Army in the area.
The large Irkutsk Reservoir was built on the Angara River between 1950 and 1959 in order to facilitate industrial development.
The two main parts of Irkutsk are customarily referred to as the "left bank" and the "right bank", with respect to the flow of the Angara River.