Barguzin River

Mouth of the Bargusin in Lake Baikal

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The Bargusin (Russian Баргузин ) is a 480 km long tributary of Lake Baikal in Buryatia in the Asian part of Russia.

The source of the river is located 230 km east of Lake Baikal above the village Ulunchan. Initially the Bargusin flows a little to the north-west and then bends to the southwest from order to go into the Bargusin sink ( Баргузинская котловина ), a 200 km long and up to 35 km wide valley between the Bargusingebirge in the northwest and the Ikat Mountains in the southeast. In this valley, where the 2387 km ² large National Nature Reserve Dscherga ( Джергинский государственный природный заповедник ) is, branches of the meandering river and forms part backwater tributaries and swampy landscape with over 1000 lakes. After flowing through the valley in which the Bargusin among others, the aforementioned Ulunchan, but also Alla, Baragtschan, Tschilgana and Bargusin flows through or happens, it opens at Ust- Bargusin in the Bargusin Bay, which of the largest and deepest bay lake Baikal forms and located in the east of the lake south of the Svyatoi Nos Peninsula.

The catchment area of ​​Bargusin, which is navigable above its mouth to 204 km in length, covers approximately 21,100 km ². Its main tributaries are Garga, argada, Ina and Uljun.