A Russian river in Siberia; rises in mountains near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward into the Kara Sea.
The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian.
1Pillaging and ravaging, it had reached the upper course of the Yenisei.
2The width of the Yenisei in this place is about three hundred metres.
3The Obi and Yenisei are about the same length, 3200 miles.
4And this is the Yenisei, which is one of the four great rivers.
5In fact, this passage of the Yenisei had been performed the least disastrously.
6It was a day and a night since they had left the Yenisei.
7The Yenisei stretched on either side as far as the eye could reach.
8He passed Nova Zembla and reached the mouth of the Yenisei.
9He evaded telling me why he left Transbaikalia to come to the Yenisei.
10He knew the Yenisei, its width was considerable, its currents strong.
11But Gavronsky suddenly went out to the 'Taiga' on the Yenisei and disappeared.
12It is the capital of the South Yenisei Cossacks.
13On the lower Yenisei it grows dark very early.
14Ship-owners are already talking about sending every year some vessels to the mouth of the Yenisei.
15There behind these hills flowed the Little Yenisei, the last large river before reaching Mongolia proper.
16At Krasnoiarsk we cross the Yenisei by a fine bridge nearly two-thirds of a mile long.