 Leaving Lake Baikal near the settlement of Listvyanka, the Angara flows north past the Irkutsk Oblast cities of Irkutsk, Angarsk, Bratsk, and Ust-Ilimsk.It then turns west, enters the Krasnoyarsk Krai, and joins the Yenisey near Strelka, south-east of Lesosibirsk.Four dams of major hydroelectric plants - constructed since the 1950s - exploit the waters of the Angara