Angara River In Irkutsk, Siberia Royalty-Free Stock Photo

The Angara River is a 1,779-kilometer-long river in Siberia, which traces a course through Russia`s Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai. It is the river that drains Lake Baikal and is the headwater tributary of the Yenisei River. Leaving Lake Baikal near the settlement of Listvyanka, the Angara flows north past the Irkutsk Oblast cities of Irkutsk, Angarsk, Bratsk, and Ust-Ilimsk. It then turns west, enters the Krasnoyarsk Krai, and joins the Yenisei near Strelka. Siberia, Russia.