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
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). With this height of fall from several
cascades it belongs to the
highest Waterfalls on Earth. It is located in the
Putorana Nature Reserve not far from the
Lake Dyupkun.
A small brook falls from the flat summit of the Mount Trapetsia ("Trapeze") into the
Talnikova River, a left tributary of the
Kureika River
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It falls from the Putorana Plateau to the vast taiga plain of Northern Siberia and flows northward passing through a series of elonga ...
. Its height was estimated in 1990 to be 482 meters, although some claim that the height of the entire cascade varies from 600 to 700 meters.
History
Instrumental measurements were first made in 1990 during an expedition into the mountains by
Petro Krawtschuk, author of the scientific book '' Geographisches Kaleidoskop ''
[ Petro Krawtschuk ''Geograficheskiy kaleydoskop'' () 1988 ] The eight-member expedition was led by
Boris Babizki (born 1936; former
USSR - athlete). A fall height of 482 m was determined. The measurement result appeared in Kravchuk's book ''Nature's Records ''.
This seasonal waterfall is notoriously difficult to access and measure since the brook is frozen each year for 10 or 11 months. Its annual reappearance is not regular, every other year the stream is not observed at all, prompting the Russian geographers to dispute whether it still exists.
See also
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List of waterfalls
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References
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Waterfalls of Russia
Landforms of Krasnoyarsk Krai