History Of The Irtysh River

A series of Mongolia and Turkic peoples occupied the river for centuries. In the ages 15 and 16, the middle and lower river flows into the Irtysh Tatar khanate of Sibir, which beat the Russians in the 1580s. In the 17th century, the Khanate Zunghar formed by the people of Mongolia Oirat became Russia's southern neighbor, and controlled the upper Irtysh. The Russians founded the city of Omsk in 1716 in 1718 in Semipalatinsk, Ust-Kamenogorsk in 1720, and Petropavlovsk in 1752.

Chinese Qing Empire State Zunghar conquered in the 1750s. The border between the Russian and Qing empires (the current border between Russia and Kazakhstan and Mongolia to the north and China in the South) was settled in the early 19th century.

Economic use, Irtysh River

Tankers and passenger ships and cargo navigate the river between April and October, when it freezes. Omsk, which houses the headquarters of state-owned Irtysh shipping functions as the largest river port in western Siberia. Large hydro plants in Ust-Kamenogorsk and Bakhtarminsk use the Irtysh near the border between Kazakhstan and China. Deepest lock in the world with a drop of 42 meters, allowing river traffic to bypass the dam in Ust-Kemenogorsk.

The north side of the river, turning the proposals discussed at length in 1960 and 1970, would see the direction of the flow and distribution of water in the Irtysh facing Central Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Although these giant water supply systems are not taken, the Irtysh-Karaganda Canal lower irrigation (in Russian: Канал Иртыш - Караганда) was built between 1962 and 1974 to supply water to the arid steppes of Kazakhstan and one of most important industrial centers, Karaganda. In 2002, the pipeline was built to provide water channels of the river Ishim Kazakh capital of Astana and.

In the 2000s, projects to divert large quantities of water Irtysh in China, as the proposed Black Irtysh - Canal in Karama, was sentenced by Kazakh and Russian environmentalists.

Geography of Irtysh River

From its origins as Kara-Irtysh (Black Irtysh) and Mongolia Altai Mountains in Xinjiang, China, Irtysh flows through the north-west of Lake Zaysan Kazakhstan Tobol rivers meet and merge Ishim first Ob near Khanty-Mansiysk in western Siberia , Russia after 4248 km (2640 miles).

Irtysh River

Irtysh ( Russia: Иртыш, Kazakhstan: Ertisa / Ертiс, Tatar Cyrillic: Иртеш, America: IRTE, Chinese: É'ěrqísī he / 额尔齐斯河) Mongol: Эрчис is a river in Siberia and is the chief tributary of the Ob River . Its name means White River. Irtysh is the main tributary of Tobol. The Ob-Irtysh form of a large swimming pool in Asia, which covers most of western Siberia and the Altai Mountains.