The Ilim () is a
river
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in
Irkutsk Oblast
Irkutsk Oblast (; ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara River, Angara, Lena River, Lena, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers. The administrative center is ...
in
Russia
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, a right tributary of the
Angara
The Angara (; ) or Angar ( мүрэн) is a major river in Siberia, which traces a course through Russia's Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai. It drains out of Lake Baikal and is the headwater tributary of the Yenisey. It is long, and has ...
. It flows north between and parallel to the rivers Angara and
Lena
Lena or LENA may refer to:
Places
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* Lena, Manitoba, an unincorporated community located in Killarney-Turtle Mountain municipality in Manitoba, Canada
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, and then swings west to join the Angara south of
Ust-Ilimsk
Ust-Ilimsk ( rus, Усть-Илимск, p=usʲtʲ ɪˈlʲimsk) is a town in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Angara River. Population: 53,000 (1977).
History
An '' ostrog'' (fortress) was built on the present site of the town in the ...
.
Geography
The
Ust-Ilimsk Dam
The Ust-Ilimsk Hydroelectric Power Station (Ust-Ilimsk HPS) is a concrete gravity dam on the Angara River and adjacent hydroelectric power station. It is located near Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk Oblast in Russia and is the third dam on the Angara cascades. ...
on the Angara (downstream from the older, bigger, and better known
Bratsk Dam
The Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station (also referred to as The ''50 years of Great October'' Dam) is a concrete gravity dam on the Angara River and adjacent hydroelectric power station. It is the second level of the Angara River hydroelectric st ...
), completed in the mid-1970s, not only backs up the Angara, but also the Ilim as far as
Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky
Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky ( rus, Железногорск-Илимский, p=ʐɪlʲɪznɐˈgorsk ɪˈlʲimskʲɪj) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Nizhneilimsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia ...
. The site of the old town of
Ilimsk
Ilimsk () was a small town in Siberia, within today's Irkutsk Oblast of Russia. The town was flooded by the Ust-Ilimsk Reservoir in the mid-1970s.
Ilimsk was founded in 1630 on the Ilim River, a tributary of the Angara River, as Ilimsky Ost ...
was flooded by the reservoir.
The Ilim is long, and its
basin covers .
The river freezes up in late October and stays icebound until early May. Its main tributaries are the Kochenga and the Tuba from the right, and the Chora from the left.
Илим
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See also
*Siberian River Routes
Siberian River Routes were the main ways of communication in Russian Siberia before the 1730s, when roads began to be built. The rivers were also of primary importance in the process of Russian conquest and exploration of vast Siberian territorie ...
References
Rivers of Irkutsk Oblast
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