Abakan River

The Abakan

Location of Abakan ( Абакан ) in the catchment area of the Yenisei

The Abakan (Russian Абакан, of Circassian for " Bear's Blood ", according to other theories "Bear River " or "River of the Fathers" [ ie the Khakassians ] ) is a (along with its source river Bolshoy Abakan ) 514 km long left tributary of the upper Yenisei in the Republic of Khakassia in the southeast of West Siberia.

General

The Abakan is produced in the southwestern area of ​​the Westsajan from the Bolshoi Abakan ( Big Abakan ) and Maly Abakan ( Small Abakan ) and flows from there to the northeast by the Minusinsk basin to the city Abakan, where it flows into the reservoir of the Yenisei Krasnoyarsk. On the left bank of the river, about 150 km southwest of the town of Abakan, is the small town Abasa. The mean annual flow at the mouth near the measuring point Raikov is 381 m³ / s, in the most arid month of January 49.3 m³ / s, in the water-rich Month May 1095 m³ / s Riverside, who is also the irrigation is in its lower reaches, there are timber floating.

Gained international recognition of the flow through the book The Forgotten the Taiga by Vasily Peskov about the family living there Hermit Lykow.