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Irtysh (;
Kazakh:
Ertis / Эртiс ; ;
Chinese:
Erqisi / 额尔齐斯河) a
river in
Siberia, the chief tributary of the
river Ob. Its name means White River. It is actually longer than the Ob to their confluence. Irtysh's main affluent is
Tobol River. The Ob-Irtysh form a major basin in Asia, encompassing most of Western
Siberia and the
Altay Mountains.
Geography
From its source as
Kara-Irtysh (Black Irtysh) in the
Mongolian Altay mountains in
Xinjiang,
China, Irtysh flows NW through
Lake Zaysan,
Kazakhstan until it meets the
Ob near
Khanty-Mansiysk in western
Siberia,
Russia after 4,248 km (2,640 mi).
Economic use
Passenger, freight boats and tankers navigate most of the river between April and October, when it isn't frozen.
Omsk is home to the headquarters of the state-owned
Irtysh River Shipping Company, and the largest river port in Western Siberia. Major hydroelectric plants at
Ust-Kamenogorsk and Bakhtarminsk (1959) use the Irtysh near the Kazakhstan-Chinese border.
Some of the
Northern river reversal proposals, widely discussed in the 1960-70s, would see the direction of the Irtysh flow reversed, the river being used to supply water to central Kazakhstan and
Uzbekistan. While these gigantic water management schemes were not implemented, a smaller
Irtysh-Karaganda irrigation canal was built between 1962 and 1974 to supply water to the dry Kazakstani
Steppes, and to one of the country's main industrial centers,
Karaganda. In 2002, pipelines were constructed to supply water from the canal to the
Ishim River and Kazakhstan's capital,
Astana.
In the 2000s, projects for diverting a significant amounts of Irtysh water within China, such as the proposed Black Irtysh -
Karamai Canal, have been decried by Kazakh and Russian environmentalists.
History
The river banks were occupied by
Chinese,
Kalmyks, and
Mongols until the
Russians arrived in the late 16th century. The Russian conquest of the Irtysh basin was completed by the early 19th century.
Cities along the river
The main cities on the Irtysh, from source to mouth, are:
Further Information
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