Yenisei',

Yenisei', one of the largest rivers of Siberia, formed by the junction of the Shishkit and Beikhem, which rise in the mountains on the southern border of Siberia. It flows north through the centre of Siberia into the Arctic Ocean, forming at its mouth a long estuary, and has a total course of about 3200 miles. It is navigable 1850 miles to Minusinsk. Its chief tributaries are the Angara or Upper Tunguska from Lake Baikal and the Lower Tunguska. For the navigation, &c. of the Yenisei, see SIBERIA, p. 427, and KARA SEA. See too Henry Seebohm's Siberia in Asia: a Visit to the Valley of the Yenisey (1882).