The Ob–Yenisei Canal , also known as the Ket-Kas Canal is a disused waterway that connected the basins of the rivers Ob and Yenisei in Siberia.
7-601: The waterway connected the Ket River , a tributary of the Ob with the Greater Kas River , a tributary of the Yenisei , making use of their tributaries and lakes. The divide between the two river systems (which is also the border between today's Tomsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai ) is spanned by a hand-dug canal 8 km long, 20 m wide at the bottom, and 2.1 m (7 feet) deep. The canal
14-564: A cutter managed to make their way from the Yenisei to the Ob, but the passage was extremely difficult. The canal is now fully abandoned. It is occasionally reached by tourists using canoes , cars, or bicycles, or on foot. 59°12′N 88°34′E / 59.200°N 88.567°E / 59.200; 88.567 This Krasnoyarsk Krai location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Tomsk Oblast location article
21-641: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ket River The Ket ( Кеть ), also known in its upper reaches as the Bolshaya Ket ( Большая Кеть ) is a west-flowing river in the Krasnoyarsk Krai and Tomsk Oblast in Russia, a right tributary of the Ob . The Ket has a length of 1,621 kilometres (1,007 mi) and a drainage basin of 94,200 square kilometres (36,400 sq mi). It freezes up in late October or early November and stays under
28-690: The Ob in 1602 and another at Makovsk near the head of navigation in 1618. Makovsk was also called Makarskoi Fort or Makovskaya Pristan (Makovsk Landing). The portage east to Yeniseysk , one of the longest portages in Siberia, was called the Makarskoi Portage. When John Bell sailed down the Ket in August 1722 he compared it to the River Styx . He complained about the crookedness, sandbars, mosquitos, lack of inhabitants and
35-502: The ice until late April or early May. Its main tributaries are the Sochur, Orlovka and Lisitsa from the right, Malaya Ket, Mendel, Yelovaya , and Chachamga from the left. The Ket once served as one of the main river routes in Siberia. A portage near its headwaters allowed one to cross from the Ob River basin to the Yenisei basin. The Russians established a fort at Ketsk a few miles above
42-518: The tall trees and brambles on both sides which made it gloomy. His voyage from Makovsk to the Ob took 25 days. In the late 19th-century the Ket–Kas Canal connected the Ket with the Greater Kas River which flows into the Yenisei. This project made the Ket a part of a waterway system connecting the Ob River basin with the Yenisei. But the canal – shallow, long, inconveniently located, and frozen for
49-577: Was built in a period between 1882 and 1891, but was too shallow and narrow to compete with the Trans-Siberian Railway . Plans to improve the canal were considered around 1911, but were abandoned due to the beginning of the First World War . The canal was severely damaged during the Civil War , and closed for navigation in 1921. The canal was used one more time in 1942, when three steamboats and
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