Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Mouth
- Lake Baikal
- Length
- 480 km (300 mi)
- Basin size
- 21,100 km (8,100 sq mi)
- Progression
- ‹See Tfd› Lake Baikal → ‹See Tfd› Angara → ‹See Tfd› Yenisey → Kara Sea
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Buryatia
- Continent
- Asia
- Elevation
- 449
- Image
- Bargusinmuendung ustbargusin.jpg
- Length
- 480
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- Commons category
- Barguzin River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Lake Baikal
- watershed area
- 21100
- discharge
- 130
- origin of the watercourse
- Ikat Range
- described by source
- Geographical statistical dictionary of the Russian Empire
- different from
- Barguzin
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Encyclopedic overview
Yenisey basin including Lake Baikal and the river Barguzin The Barguzin (Russian: Баргузи́н; Buryat: Баргажан, romanized: Bargajan) is a river in Buryatia, Russia, 480 km (300 mi) long, flowing into the Barguzin Bay of Lake Baikal, the largest and deepest bay of Baikal. Barguzin is the third (by the flow amount) inflow of Baikal, after the rivers Selenga and Upper Angara. Its watershed area is 21,100 km (8,100 mi). It is navigable for 204 km (127 mi) upwards from its estuary. Its main tributaries are the Gagra, Argada and Ina from the left, and the Ulyun from the right. In 1648, Ivan Galkin founded an ostrog on the Barguzin.
Valley
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barguzin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.