The Angara is navigable by modern vessels of several isolated sections:* Lake Baikal in Irkutsk;
* Irkutsk and Bratsk;
* In the Ust-Ilimsk tank;
* From Dam Boguchany (Kodinsk) and the Yenisey River.
The section between Ust-Ilimsk dam and the dam was not navigable due to the rapid Boguchany. However, with the completion of the dam Boguchany, and filling the tank at least part of this section of river is navigable as well. However, this is not going to allow navigation of Lake Baikal, the Yenisei, as none of the three existing dams were given a crash or a boat lift or the dam has a Boguchany.
Despite the absence of a continuous inland waterway transport, Angara, and its tributary Ilim has played a significant role in the Russian colonization of Siberia, from approx. 1630, when (and portage necessary) constituted a major waterway connecting with Lake Baikal, the Lena and Yenisey. River transport lost its importance after the construction of the Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk route, and later the Trans-Siberian
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