Kinzelyuk Waterfall
Kinzelyuk Waterfall is located in Irkutsk Oblast
Kinzelyuk Waterfall
Kinzelyuk Waterfall is located in Russia
Kinzelyuk Waterfall
LocationIrkutsk Oblast, Russia
Coordinates54°9′30.2″N 95°49′53.4″E / 54.158389°N 95.831500°E / 54.158389; 95.831500

The Kinzelyuk Waterfall (Кинзелюкский водопад (Russian)) is probably the highest waterfall in Russia, after the elusive Talnikovy Waterfall (which may not exist any more).[1] In 1989, a team led by Petro Kravchuk estimated its height to be 328 meters.[1]

The waterfall is located in the eastern part of the Kuraginsky District, near the border with the Irkutsk Oblast, in the sparsely populated region of Siberia known as Tofalaria.[2]

The stream flows out of the Lake Kinzelyuk, which occupies the summit of the Kinzelyuk Mountain, with a height of 1601 meters. The water falls into the small Lower Kinzelyuk Lake, which feeds the Kinzelyuk River, a tributary of the Kizir River.[3]

The Kinzelyuk Mountain is part of the Kinzelyuk Ridge, the westernmost spur of the Agul Belki mountains. The entire mountainous region is known as the Eastern Sayan mountains.[4]

References

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image icon The stream flowing out of the mountain lake
  1. 1 2 Кравчук П. А. Рекорды природы. — Любешов: Эрудит, 1993. — С. 65. — 216 с. — ISBN 5-7707-2044-1.
  2. ↑ tofalaria.ru - Кинзелюкский водопад
  3. ↑ А. А. Федоров. Два года в Саянах. Гос. изд-во геогр. лит-ры, 1951. Стр. 152-153.
  4. ↑ "Топографска карта N-47, G; M 1:1 000 000 - Topographic USSR Chart (in Russian)". Retrieved 14 June 2023.
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