The Abakan the Khakas

Khakas language

Khakas is a Turkic language spoken by the Khakas people, who mainly live in the southern Siberian Khakas Republic, or Khakassia, in Russia...

 word for 'bear's blood', is a river

River

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 in the Republic of Khakassia

Khakassia

The Republic of Khakassia or Khakasiya is a federal subject of Russia located in south-central Siberia. Its capital city is Abakan, which is also the largest city in the republic...

, Russia

Russia

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 formed by the confluence

Confluence (geography)

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 of the Bolshoy Abakan and Maly Abakan Rivers. It rises in the western Sayan Mountains

Sayan Mountains

The Sayan Mountains are a mountain range between northwestern Mongolia and southern Siberia, Russia.The Eastern Sayan extends from the Yenisei River at 92° E to the southwest end of Lake Baikal at 106° E...

 and flows northeast through the Minusinsk Depression to the Yenisei River

Yenisei River

Yenisei , also written as Yenisey, is the largest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean. It is the central of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean...

. Its length is about 514 km (from the Bolshoy Abakan's source

Source (river or stream)

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); drainage basin

Drainage basin

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 area—32,000 km². The river is used for timber floating

Timber floating

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 and irrigation

Irrigation

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The city of Abakan

Abakan

Abakan is the capital city of the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, located in the central part of Minusinsk Depression, at the confluence of the Yenisei and Abakan Rivers. Population: -History:...

 is located at the confluence of the Abakan and the Yenisei

Yenisei River

Yenisei , also written as Yenisey, is the largest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean. It is the central of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean...

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