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The Bashkaus (Russian: Башкаус) is a river in the Altai Republic in Siberia, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Chulyshman river, which flows into Lake Teletskoye (Ob basin). The length of the Bashkaus River is 219 km. The area of its basin is 7,770 km². It rises from a cirque lake in the eastern part of the Kuraiskii Mountain Range. In its lower reaches, it flows in a narrow valley, which often turns into a rocky canyon. The mean annual flow rate near the village of Ust’-Ulagan measures about 30 cu m3/sec.[1]
It is widely considered one of the most challenging rivers for white-water rafting in the former USSR. In Russia, it is known as a Class V river. This means that it's technical difficulty, i.e. the difficulty in navigating it in a raft or canoe, is high (as compared to the International Scale, which works in reverse[vague]) while its remoteness or distance from assistance in the event of things going wrong, is also a six (Russian Scale of one to six.) Hence, the Bashkaus is anecdotally ranked as the second most difficult river in the former USSR to raft or canoe, behind nearby Chulyshman River. The Bashkaus river was first kayaked in 1992, by a group from Ireland. There was an apparent attempt in the previous year which was unsuccessful.
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