Podkamennaya Tunguska River

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Stony Tunguska
Mouth	Yenisei River
Basin countries	Russia
Length	1,865 km (1,159 mi)
Basin area	240,000 sq km

The Stony Tunguska (Russian: Подкаменная Тунгуска, Podkamennaya Tunguska, literally Understone Tunguska) is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russian Federation; it is a right tributary of the Yenisei and has a length of 1865 km. The name of the river comes from the fact that it flows under pebble fields without open water. The Tunguska event in June 1908 occurred near this river.

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