The Ezop Range (russian: Хребет Эзоп) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively it belongs partly to

Amur Oblast Amur Oblast ( rus, Аму́рская о́бласть, r=Amurskaya oblast, p=ɐˈmurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers in the Russian Far East. The administrative ...

and partly to the

Khabarovsk Krai Khabarovsk Krai ( rus, Хабаровский край, r=Khabarovsky kray, p=xɐˈbarəfskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Russian Far East and is a part of the Far Eastern Federal District ...

of the

Russian Federation Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

. The range is part of the Ezop /

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 ...

volcanic zone.Geological scheme of the Ezop and Yam-Alin volcanic zones
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Geography

The Ezop is a range in northeastern Siberia, located in the eastern end of Amur Oblast and the southwestern side of Khabarovsk Krai. It is part of the Yankan - Tukuringra - Soktakhan - Dzhagdy group of mountain ranges.Эзоп (горный хребет)
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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. The Ezop Range runs in a roughly east/west direction for about . 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 ...

has its sources in the range. To the north of the mountain chain rises the

Selemdzha Range The Selemdzha Range (russian: Селемджинский хребет) is a range of mountains in the Russian Far East. Administratively it belongs partly to Amur Oblast and partly to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation. There is gold o ...

running roughly parallel to it. The northern end of the

Turan Range The Turan Range (russian: Хребет Тура̀на) 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. History The range was forme ...

meets the southern slopes of the range from the south. At the eastern end rise the

and

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. ...

ranges, which run in a north/south direction in Khabarovsk Krai. To the southwest lies the Zeya-Bureya Lowland.

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The highest point of the Ezop is a high unnamed summit.''Topographic Map'' N-53; М 1:1 000 000
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Flora

The slopes of the range are covered by

taiga Taiga (; rus, тайга́, p=tɐjˈɡa; relates to Mongolic and Turkic languages), generally referred to in North America as a boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruce ...

, mainly consisting of

larch Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus ''Larix'', of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from tall, they are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in the north and high on mountains furt ...

, up to elevations of .

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Gorny Journal, 1905
Mountain ranges of Amur Oblast Mountain ranges of Khabarovsk Krai Mountain ranges of Russia

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