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  • noun a river in southeastern Siberia that flows northwest from Lake Baikal to become a tributary of the Yenisei River

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Examples

  • Further along the Angara River is the Bratsk plant, which is readily of a size to produce 4.5 million kilowatts -- 4.5 million, or almost twice the amount produced by the Volgograd hydroelectric plant.

    CASTRO INTERVIEW ON RETURN FROM SOVIET TRIP 1963

  • Grass and dwarf shrub-grass as well as stepped pine and pine-larch forests are common in the basin of the Angara River and the headwaters of the Lena and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers.

    East Siberian taiga 2008

  • What amazes me is that so much order can reign, for who could fight against this strength that mastered the Angara River?

    MEETING AT BRATSK STADIUM 1963

  • Now, the hydroelectric plant on the Angara River in the city of Irkutsk, produces 600,000 kilowatts.

    CASTRO INTERVIEW ON RETURN FROM SOVIET TRIP 1963

  • The big engine rumbled powerfully, propelling us against the current of the Angara River toward that point where the river's bottom falls away into the darkness of Baikal's profound depths.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

  • Angara River and 10 million rubles will be put into the construction of an aluminum plant.

    RIA Novosti 2010

  • The Angara River (Russian: Ангара́) is a 1,779 kilometers (1,105 mi) long river in Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai, south-east Siberia, Russia.

    WN.com - Articles related to Senator Trillanes, political prisoner 2010

  • For this reason, Ides 'caravan had to take a much more roundabout path to Baikal that took them across the Urals on the same path as Ermak a century before, down the Irtysh River to its junction with the Ob, up the Ob and its tributary the Ket, to a portage into the Yenisei basin, and up the Angara River to Baikal.

    archy 2009

  • The big engine rumbled powerfully, propelling us against the current of the Angara River toward that point where the river’s bottom falls away into the darkness of Baikal’s profound depths.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2010

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