Bystrinsky Golets (russian: link=no, Быстринский Голец), also known as Barun-Shabartuy, is a mountain in the

Chikokon Range The Chikokon Range ( rus, Чикоконский хребет) is a mountain range in the Transbaikal Region (Zabaykalsky Krai) of Siberia, Russia. The range is named after the Chikokon River, a small left tributary of the Chikoy River. The C ...

. Administratively it is part of the

Transbaikal Krai Zabaykalsky Krai ( rus, Забайкальский край, r=Zabaikal'skii krai, p=zəbɐjˈkalʲskʲɪj kraj, lit. "Transbaikal krai"; bua, Yбэр Байгалай хизаар, Uber Baigalai Xizaar) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai) t ...

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. The mountain was officially declared a

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in 1988.Resolution of the Chita Oblast Executive Committee No. 593. 29 December 1988

Geography

This high mountain is the highest point of the Khentei-Daur Highlands, part of the

South Siberian System The South Siberian Mountains ( rus, Южно-Сибирские горы) are one of the largest mountain systems of the Russian Federation. The total area of the system of mountain ranges is more than 1.5 million km². The South Siberian Mountain ...

of ranges. It is located in the western part of the highlands, just a little north of the border with

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.''Быстринский Голец'', Small Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia
/ref> the Bystrinsky Golets is a ‘’golets’’-type of mountain with a bald peak that rises just above the source of the

Chikoy River The Chikoy (russian: Чикой; mn, Цѳх гол, ''Tsökh gol''; bua, Сүхэ гол, ''Sükhe gol'') is a river in Zabaykalsky Krai and the Republic of Buryatia, Buryat Republic in Russia, which partially flows along the Russia-Mongolia bor ...

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The Bystrinsky Golets is part of the

Chikoy National Park Chikoy National Park (russian: Чикой, национальный парк) was officially created in 2014, on the mountain-steppe border region of south-central Siberia and Mongolia. It is in the Krasnochikoysky District of the Zabaykalsky ("T ...

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{{ZabaykalskyKrai-geo-stub Khentei-Daur Highlands

Geography

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