 Rising in Mungaragiyn-gol in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course before draining into the Yenisey Gulf in the Kara Sea.The Yenisey divides the Western Siberian Plain in the west from the Central Siberian Plateau to the east; it drains a large part of central Siberia.It is the central one of three large Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob and the Lena).