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The Angara River (, ''Angar'', "Cleft"; (ロシア語:Ангара́), ''Angará'') is a river in Siberia, which traces a course through Russia's Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai. It is the river that drains Lake Baikal and is the headwater tributary of the Yenisei River.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Angara River )〕 It was formerly known as the Lower or Nizhnyaya Angara (distinguishing it from the Upper Angara). Below its junction with the Ilim, it was formerly known as the Upper Tunguska ((ロシア語:Верхняя Тунгуска), ''Verkhnyaya Tunguska'', distinguishing it from the Lower Tunguska)〔(ВЕРХНЯЯ ТУНГУСКА ) (Verkhnyaya Tunguska, in the dictionary of Russia's place names).〕〔(Tunguska ), in Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia〕 and, with the names reversed, as the Lower Tunguska.〔See, e.g., the 1773 Kitchen map above.〕 Leaving Lake Baikal near the settlement of Listvyanka (at ), the Angara flows north past the Irkutsk Oblast cities of Irkutsk, Angarsk, Bratsk, and Ust-Ilimsk. It then turns west, enters the Krasnoyarsk Krai, and falls into the Yenisei near Strelka (at , south-east of Lesosibirsk). ==Dams and reservoirs== The Angara is dammed by the dams of three major hydroelectric plants that have been constructed since the 1950s. *Irkutsk Dam (Иркутская ГЭС), forming the Irkutsk Reservoir, which floods the valley of the river from its source to Irkutsk, and slightly raises the water level in Lake Baikal. *Bratsk Dam, forming the Bratsk Reservoir. *Ust-Ilimsk Dam (Усть-Илимская ГЭС), at Ust-Ilimsk, forming the Ust-Ilimsk Reservoir. *Boguchany Dam (Богучанская ГЭС), at Kodinsk A number of villages along the Angara and its tributaries (including the historic fort of Ilimsk on the Ilim), as well as numerous agricultural areas in the river valley, were flooded by these reservoirs. Due to its effects on the way of life of the rural residents of the Angara valley, dam construction has been criticized by a number of Soviet intellectuals, in particular the Irkutsk writer Valentin Rasputin both in his novel ''Farewell to Matyora'' and in his non-fiction book, ''Siberia, Siberia''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Angara River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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