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Irtysh (ĭrtĭsh`), river, c.2,650 mi (4,260 km) long, W Siberian Russia and Kazakhstan. It is the chief tributary of the Ob and one of the two major rivers of W Siberia. As the Ertix, it rises in Xinjiang, China, in the Mongolian Altai Mts., flows NW through Lake Zaysan in Kazakhstan (where it is known as the Ertis), and enters W Siberia. There it receives the Ishim and Tobol rivers, its chief tributaries. The Irtysh flows past Semey in Kazakhstan and Omsk and Tobolsk in Russia and joins the Ob near Khanty-Mansiysk. Major hydroelectric stations are at Öskemen and Zhana Buktyrma, Kazakstan. The river banks were occupied by Chinese, Kalmyks, and Mongols until the Russians arrived in the late 16th cent. The Russian conquest of the basin was completed by the early 19th cent. Irtysh, Irtish a river in central Asia, rising in China in the Altai Mountains and flowing west through Kazakhstan, then northwest into Russia to join the Ob River as its chief tributary. Length: 4444 km (2760 miles) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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According to Juergen Salay of the University of Uppsala's Department of Economic History, the Soviets planned to "draw water from the river Ob and its tributary Irtysh and send it southward" to replenish the Aral Sea. The largest parasite-endemic area is in western Siberia, namely the Ob and Irtysh River valleys and their tributaries (9-12). Semipalatinsk, which lies along the Irtysh River in East Kazakhstan, was the major nuclear-testing site for the Soviet Union since the first explosion of a plutonium bomb in 1949. |
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