The Kinzelyuk Waterfall (') is probably the highest
waterfall
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of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf.
Waterfalls can be formed in seve ...
in
Russia
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, after the elusive
Talnikovy Waterfall
The Talnikovy Waterfall () is a 700 m high seasonal waterfall in the Putorana Mountains, the northwestern part of the Central Siberian Plateau in the north of Siberia, Russia (Asia). With this height of fall from several cascades it belongs ...
(which may not exist any more).
In 1989, a team led by
Petro Kravchuk estimated its height to be 328 meters.
[Кравчук П. А. Рекорды природы. — Любешов: Эрудит, 1993. — С. 65. — 216 с. — .]
The waterfall is located in the eastern part of the
Kuraginsky District
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, near the border with the
Irkutsk Oblast
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, in the sparsely populated region of
Siberia
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known as
Tofalaria.
The stream flows out of the Lake Kinzelyuk, which occupies the summit of the Kinzelyuk Mountain, with a height of 1601 meters. The water falls into the small Lower Kinzelyuk Lake, which feeds the
Kinzelyuk River, a tributary of the
Kizir River.
[ А. А. Федоров. Два года в Саянах. Гос. изд-во геогр. лит-ры, 1951. Стр. 152-153.]
The Kinzelyuk Mountain is part of the
Kinzelyuk Ridge, the westernmost spur of the
Agul Belki Aghul or Agul may refer to:
* Aghul people, people of the Caucasus from southern Dagestan and northern Azerbaijan
* Aghul language
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mountains. The entire mountainous region is known as the
Eastern Sayan
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mountains.
See also
*
List of waterfalls
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References
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Landforms of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Waterfalls of Russia