Tunguska

The Lower Tunguska flows through a landscape of taiga and plateau valleys in central Siberia. It receives the Nidym and other tributaries before winding west towards the Yenisei. In the seventeenth century expeditions followed the river upstream from the Yenisei; Panteley Pyanda’s journey continued across a portage to the Lena. Rapids, changing water levels and the long winter ice made the river a demanding route through the northern forest.