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Yenisei river — engraving


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"Greves du Yenisei labourees par la glace"
Ice ridges on the Yenisei River.

Wood engraving based on Lopatin's photograph.

 

Yenisei (Ioanesi), one of the deepest and longest rivers in the world and Russia. The river flows in the center of Asia, from south to north, along the border of Western Siberia and Eastern Siberia and flows into the Yenisei Bay of the Kara Sea, the Arctic Ocean. The maximum depth of the Yenisei is 61 meters, the average depth is 14 meters, and the length is 3487 km.

 

Technique, Material: Woodcut / Paper
Artist: Weber,  Engraver: 
Date, Publisher: Nouvelle geographie universelle: la terre et les hommes, Paris, 1881.
Size: sheet  27х18 cm.

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