The Tunguska River
Tunguska, the name of two eastern tributaries of the Yenisev River in Russia. They are the Lower Tunguska and the Stony Tunguska. A third tributary, the Angara River, is sometimes called the Upper Tunguska.
The Lower Tunguska begins in the Central Siberian Plateau and flows northward and westward to join the Yenisey at Turukhansk; it is 1,588 miles (2,556 km) long. The Stony Tunguska begins near the Upper Tunguska and flows generally westward 976 miles (1,571 km) to the Yenisey at the town of Podkamennaya Tunguska. The region through which the rivers flow is inhabited primarily by Evenki, a people of Ural-Altaic stock who are seminomadic herders and trappers.