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What happens to the Yenisey River at the Sayano-Shushen Reservoir?
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Yenisey River
The Ob and Yenisey river basins and their drainage networks.
At the western end of the Tyva Basin, the Yenisey River flows into the Sayano-Shushen Reservoir, which also receives the Khemchik River. Within this reservoir, the river flows northward through a now-submerged canyon that cuts across the Western Sayan mountains.1