Belaya (Angara)

The Belaya (Бе́лая, Exe Bülen) is a river in Irkutsk Oblast and Buryatia in Russia, The area of its basin is 18,000 km2.

There are nephrite and graphite deposits in the Belaya basin.

Course
The river is a left tributary of the Angara, which flows into the Bratsk Reservoir. It is formed at the confluence of the Bolshaya Belaya (Big Belaya) and Malaya Belaya (Little Belaya). Its length is 359 km from the source of Bolshaya Belaya in the Belskye Goltsy of the Eastern Sayan. Not including the latter the length is 79 km.

Besides the Malaya Belaya, the main tributary is the Urik. There are about 400 lakes in the basin. The Belaya freezes up in October or November and stays under ice until April or May.