In 1931, the Tungus, living on the vastterritory of Eastern Siberia, have officially become known as Evenks. But the fact that along the Yenisei from the shores of the Arctic Ocean to the borders with China for centuries lived the Tungus, explains the fact that only the rivers called Tunguska exist seven.
And there are four rivers, in whose namethere is a characterizing adjective - Podkamennaya Tunguska, Upper and two Lower, one of which is the old name of the Angara. In the southern part of the Central Siberian plateau there is a natural region called Tunguska.
The right tributary of the Yenisei is called PodkamennayaTunguska, as well as the Middle Tunguska, Chulkan and Katanga. The basin area is estimated at 240,000 square kilometers, the length reaches 1,865 km. Its source is located on the Upper Tungus Upland, and the Central Siberian plateau with the natural area of Tunguska, this river crosses from the Angara Ridge in the south to the Yenisei in the west. In 1908, 80 kilometers north of the village of Vanavara, a meteorite fell. It was, of course, called Tunguska, because around this name bore everything - the district, the river, the population. Podkamennaya Tunguska is navigable for 1,146 km, despite numerous rapids and rapids. Some thresholds have even personal names.
Thus, the most significant of them are calledLarge, Flour, as well as the Polyguz and Velma rapids. The river itself and its banks are so beautiful that there is a list of locations, the names of which are very eloquent. Here there are the Beach of the High Grass and the Dark Waters, the Eldorado Fish and the Taiga Summer, as well as the Fir Island and the Tunguska expanse, the Quiet Channel and the Rocky Shoal. Still there is the Rocky Mountain and Transparent Waters. Not every river can boast of this. The melting of the river is mainly helped by melting snow, although summer and autumn rains also contribute to high floods (there are from one to four per year), in some years there are floods. The river freezes from October to May, which, as a rule, always floods. Ice drifts take a decent time - 18 days in autumn and 9 in the spring. This is scary because of the power of the river, and beautiful. "The night is light-bright in the district, as if in the sky floating - across the wide blue blades - silvery broken ice!"
Podkamennaya Tunguska is very diverse. In the upper reaches it has a fairly wide and deep valley, then, cutting through the outcrops of rocks (they are called trapps), the river forms narrow gorges. Trapps, for centuries blown by winds, carrying away particles of rocks, form characteristic columns (location Red shore). In some places, the current reaches a speed of 3-4 centimeters per second. As the rivers of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the described water stream has tributaries. The right are Teter, Chula and Plague. On the left are Como and Velmo.
Fishing in Siberia deserves separate words andpraise, and not necessarily foreign, such as "Eldorado" and "safari". But, maybe, they will attract lovers of comfortable fishing, because there are a lot of places for wild recreation here. "On the Podkamennaya Tunguska, ice scours the coasts - cuts the fir trees, cuts the fir trees, climbs on the meadows!" About this river, as well as in general about the nature of Siberia, an infinite number of poems and songs are composed. All of them are good, and they do not embellish reality with any word, because there are not enough words to describe even a part of the beauty and greatness of Siberia.