The Bolshoy Pit ( - "Great Pit") is a

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. It is a right hand tributary of the

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. The Bolshoy Pit is long, and the

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of its basin is . The lower reaches of the Bolshoy Pit are navigable during the spring flood between May and June up to the village Bryanka, from the river's mouth. Малые притоки Енисея. Судоходство и грузоперевозки
(Small tributaries of the Yenisei. Shipping and freight - Yenisei River Shipping Company)

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The Bolshoy Pit has its source in the eastern slopes of the

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, part of the western side of the

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. Its source is not far from the source of the Velmo, a tributary of the

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. After , it is joined by the Maly Pit. Flowing southwestwards across the

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of the mountainous region, it cuts across the main ridge of the Yenisey Range through a deep gorge. Then it bends and flows roughly northwestwards in the last nearly of its course.Большой Пит,

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in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M, 1969-1978. The Bolshoy Pit joins the right bank of the Yenisey downriver from Ust-Pit village and from the mouth of the Yenisey. The confluence is located between the mouths of the

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and

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The river freezes in mid-November and stays frozen until mid-May. The main tributaries of the Bolshoy Pit are the Chirimba, Panimba, Veduga, Lendakha and Kamenka on the right and the Gorbilok and Sukhoy Pit on the left.

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