Once, during the 1985--1988 partial alcohol prohibition in Russia, we drank eau-de-Cologne with forestry workers in the taiga forest, on the bank of the mighty
Angara River in Siberia.
Other districts and territories where opisthorchiasis is endemic include the Yekaterinburg (formally Sverdlovsk) District (13), Altai territory, Voronezh District (14), Volga River valley (15) and Archangelsk District in western Russia, and the
Angara River (16), Krasnoyarsk territory, and Irkutsk District in eastern Siberia (2).
The
Angara River headwaters have evidence of the Neolithic, starting at c.
According to the Russian State National Committee on Ecology, most of the mercury was released directly into the
Angara River and traveled several miles downstream where it now lies concentrated in the sediments of the huge Bratsk Reservoir.
The shimmering sapphire waters of the
Angara river on a sunny day contrasted sharply with the grey, grime-laden streets on a dull day.