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Jewish Autonomous Oblast The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO; russian: Евре́йская автоно́мная о́бласть, (ЕАО); yi, ייִדישע אװטאָנאָמע געגנט, ; )In standard Yiddish: , ''Yidishe Oytonome Gegnt'' is a federal subject ...

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Granite Granite () is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies under ...

gneiss Gneiss ( ) is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock. It is formed by high-temperature and high-pressure metamorphic processes acting on formations composed of igneous or sedimentary rocks. Gneiss forms at higher temperatures a ...

sedimentary Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation. Sedimentation is the collective name for processes that cause these particles ...

and effusive rocks , period = , orogeny = Alpine orogeny , map = Russia Khabarovsk Krai , map_alt = , map_caption = Location in Khabarovsk Krai , map_relief = yes The Bureya Range (russian: Буреинский хребет, ''Bureinskiy Khrebet'') is a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...

in the Khabarovsk Krai and

in the southern part of the

Russian Far East The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is admin ...

. The Dusse-Alin Tunnel on the

Baikal Amur Mainline Lake Baikal (, russian: Oзеро Байкал, Ozero Baykal ); mn, Байгал нуур, Baigal nuur) is a rift lake in Russia. It is situated in southern Siberia, between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Repu ...

crosses the range to enter the Amgun River valley. The Bastak Nature Reserve, a protected area, is located in the southeastern corner of the range.

Geography

The Bureya Range consists of a number of separate ridges with a total length of about 400 km and with a maximum height of .Bureya Range
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Great Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...

: (in 30 vols.) / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. To the northeast it connects with the

Badzhal Range The Badzhal Range (russian: Баджальский хребет, ''Badzhalskiy Khrebet'') is a mountain range in Khabarovsk Krai, Russian Far East.Хабаровский край. Путеводитель. — Приамурские ведомо� ...

. The range forms the drainage divide of the Bureya, Amgun and Urmi rivers. The sources of the

Selemdzha River The Selemdzha () is a river in the Amur Oblast, Amur Region of Russia. It is the biggest, left tributary of the Zeya (river), Zeya. The length of the river is 647 km. The area of its basin 68,600 km². Course The Selemdzha has its sou ...

are located at the northern end, where other three ranges meet the Bureya mountain chain, the

Dusse-Alin The Dusse-Alin (russian: Дуссе-Алинь) is a mountain range in Khabarovsk Krai, Russian Far East.Google Earth Although it is named after this range, the Dusse-Alin Tunnel of the Baikal–Amur Mainline is located about to the southwest. ...

from the south, the

Ezop Range The Ezop Range (russian: Хребет Эзоп) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively it belongs partly to Amur Oblast and partly to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation. The range is part of the Ezop / ...

from the west and the

Yam-Alin The Yam-Alin (russian: Ям-Алинь) is a mountain range in Amur Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai, Russian Far East.Google Earth The range is part of the Ezop/Yam-Alin volcanic zone. History The range is located in a remote area and was unexplored ...

from the north. Google Earth The Dusse-Alin and Yam-Alin are a northern prolongation of the Bureya Range.Ям-Алинь
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: (in 30 vols.) - Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. Mount Studencheskaya is located in the southern part of the Bureya Range. At , it is the highest point of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.Еврейская автономная область - Географическое положение и рельеф
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Flora

The slopes of the range are covered by conifer and deciduous forests.

References

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Brucite deposits of the lesser Khingan / southern Bureya rangeGeochemical characteristics of precious metal-bearing carbonaceous sequences from the eastern Bureya Massif
Mountain ranges of Khabarovsk Krai Landforms of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Geography

Flora

See also

References

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