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Where is the Krasnoyarsk Reservoir located on the Yenisey River?
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Yenisey River
The Ob and Yenisey river basins and their drainage networks.
The Krasnoyarsk Reservoir is located on the Yenisey River in the Minusinsk Basin. It begins just below the Abakan confluence and stretches approximately 240 miles (390 km) downstream to the city of Divnogorsk. The reservoir is contained on its eastern side by the northwestern spurs of the Eastern Sayan mountains.1