The Bolshoy Pit ( - "Great Pit") is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is a right hand tributary of the Yenisey.
The Bolshoy Pit is long, and the area of its basin is .Russian State Water Register - Bolshoy Pit The lower reaches of the Bolshoy Pit are navigable during the spring flood between May and June up to the village Bryanka, from the river's mouth. Малые притоки Енисея. Судоходство и грузоперевозки (Small tributaries of the Yenisei. Shipping and freight - Yenisei River Shipping Company)
Course The Bolshoy Pit has its source in the eastern slopes of the Yenisey Range, part of the western side of the Central Siberian Plateau. Its source is not far from the source of the Velmo, a tributary of the Podkamennaya Tunguska. After , it is joined by the Maly Pit. Flowing southwestwards across the taiga of the mountainous region, it cuts across the main ridge of the Yenisey Range through a deep gorge. Then it bends and flows roughly northwestwards in the last nearly of its course.Большой Пит, Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M, 1969-1978.
The Bolshoy Pit joins the right bank of the Yenisey downriver from Ust-Pit village and from the mouth of the Yenisey. The confluence is located between the mouths of the Angara and Podkamennaya Tunguska.Google Earth The river freezes in mid-November and stays frozen until mid-May.
The main tributaries of the Bolshoy Pit are the Chirimba, Panimba, Veduga, Lendakha and Kamenka on the right and the Gorbilok and Sukhoy Pit on the left.
See also List of rivers of Russia
References
External links Fishing in Russia