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Tunguska River — There are three rivers in Eastern Siberia that share the name Tunguska ( ru. Тунгуска). All three are right tributaries of Yenisei.* Upper Tunguska, or Angara * Stony Tunguska River * Lower Tunguska RiverThere is also the Tunguska River in the… … Wikipedia
Nizhnyaya Tunguska River — ▪ river, Russia also spelled Nižn aja Tunguska , English Lower Tunguska River river in western Siberia that is a right bank tributary of the Yenisey River, flowing through Irkutsk oblast (province) and Krasnoyarsk kray (region) of Russia … Universalium
Nizhnyaya Tunguska River — Coordinates: 65°47′00″N 87°57′20″E / 65.7833333°N 87.95556°E / 65.7833333; 87.95556 … Wikipedia
Podkamennaya Tunguska River — Infobox River | river name = Podkamennaya Tunguska caption = Map of the Yenisei basin that shows the Podkamennaya Tunguska river origin = mouth = Yenisei River basin countries = Russia length = 1,865 km (1,159 mi) elevation = discharge =… … Wikipedia
Podkamennaya Tunguska River — ▪ river, Russia also spelled Podkamennaja Tunguska , English Stony Tunguska , also called Srednyaya Tunguska tributary of the Yenisey River in western Siberia, Irkutsk oblast (province), Russia. It has a total length of 1,159 miles… … Universalium
Tunguska — is a region in Russia. The term may also refer to one of the following.*Any of the Tunguska Rivers ** Upper Tunguska, an old name of the lower flow of Angara River ** Stony Tunguska River (Russian: Podkamennaya Tunguska ; the place of the… … Wikipedia
Tunguska event — The Tunguska Event, or Tunguska explosion, was a powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya (Lower Stony) Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at around 7:14 a.m. [P. Farinella, L. Foschini, Ch. Froeschl eacute;,… … Wikipedia
Tunguska event in fiction — The Tunguska event was an explosion that occurred on June 30, 1908 in the Siberian region of Russia, possibly caused by a meteoroid airburst. The event has inspired much speculation and appears in diverse fictional contexts, reviewed here. This… … Wikipedia
Tunguska event — (June 30, 1908) Enormous aerial explosion that flattened about 500,000 ac (2,000 sq km) of pine forest near the Stony Tunguska River in central Siberia. Its energy is estimated to have been equivalent to that of about 15 megatons of TNT.… … Universalium
Tunguska Basin — [toon go͞os′kä] large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei * * * … Universalium
