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known as Tofalaria. The stream flows out of the Lake Kinzelyuk, which occupies the summit of the Kinzelyuk Mountain, with a height of 1601 meters. The water falls into the small Lower Kinzelyuk Lake, which feeds the Kinzelyuk River, a tributary of the

Kizir River The Kizir (russian: Кизир) is a right tributary of the Kazyr. It flows through the Eastern Sayan Mountains in the Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia. Its source is located in the Kryzhin Range. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . The river c ...

. А. А. Федоров. Два года в Саянах. Гос. изд-во геогр. лит-ры, 1951. Стр. 152-153. The Kinzelyuk Mountain is part of the Kinzelyuk Ridge, the westernmost spur of the Agulski Belki mountains. The entire mountainous region is known as the Eastern Sayan Mountains.

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