The Sette-Daban (, ) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range belongs partly to the

Sakha Republic Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia, and the largest federal subject of Russia by area. It is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million ...

and partly to the

Khabarovsk Krai Khabarovsk Krai (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a krai) of Russia. It is located in the Russian Far East and is administratively part of the Far Eastern Federal District. The administrative centre of the krai is the types of ...

of the

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. The area of the Sette-Daban is largely uninhabited. The

R504 Kolyma Highway The R504 Kolyma Highway (, ''Federal'naya Avtomobil'naya Doroga «Kolyma»,'' "Federal Automobile Highway 'Kolyma'"), part of the M56 route, is a road through the Russian Far East. It connects Magadan with the town of Nizhny Bestyakh, located ...

passes through the northern part of the range. The climate prevailing in the Sette-Daban is

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and severe. The average air temperature in January is a chilly . The average temperature in the river valleys may reach a maximum of in July.

History

In 1829, German physicist

Georg Adolf Erman Georg Adolf Erman (12 May 1806 – 12 July 1877) was a German physicist. Erman was born in Berlin as the son of Paul Erman. He studied natural science at the universities of Berlin and Königsberg, spent from 1828 to 1830 in a journey roun ...

during a round-the-world (1828-1830) journey reported the existence of "Seven Ranges" (Sette Daban) between 135° and 140° E in the area of one of the upper tributaries of the Yudoma. The range was surveyed in 1934 by geologist Yuri Bilibin (1901—1952) together with mining engineer Evgeny Bobin (1897—1941) in the course of an expedition sent by the government of the Soviet Union. After conducting the first topographic survey of the area Bilibin established that this chain consists of three parallel ridges with pointed, often rocky peaks, and that it belongs to the Verkhoyansk Mountain System. Bilibin and Bobin also explored for the first time the

Yudoma-Maya Highlands The Yudoma-Maya Highlands (; ) are a mountainous area in the Sakha Republic and Khabarovsk Krai, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The settlement of Allakh-Yun is located in the area of the highlands on the right bank of the Allakh-Yun Rive ...

and the

Skalisty Range The Skalisty Range (; ) is a range of mountains in far Russian Far East, North-eastern Russia, part of the East Siberian System. Administratively the mountain chain belongs to the Sakha Republic. The area of the range is remote and desolate. The ...

, directly adjacent to Sette-Daban.

Geography

The Sette-Daban is a range located in southeastern Yakutia, at the southern end of the

Verkhoyansk Range The Verkhoyansk Range (, ''Verhojanskiy Hrebet''; ) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Russia near the settlement of Verkhoyansk, well-known for its frigid climate. It is part of the East Siberian Mountains. The range lies just west o ...

, part of the

East Siberian System The East Siberian Mountains or East Siberian Highlands () are one of the largest mountain systems of the Russian Federation. They are located between the Central Yakutian Lowland and the Bering Strait in Northeast Siberia. The area of the East S ...

of mountains. It is bound in the north by the

Tompo River The Tompo (; ) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, a right tributary of the Aldan, part of the Lena basin. It has a length of and a drainage basin area of . River Tompo gives its name to the Tompo District. It flows across desol ...

and in the west by the

Ulakhan-Bom The Ulakhan-Bom (; , meaning "Big Obstacle") is a range of mountains in far Russian Far East, North-eastern Russia, a southern prolongation of the Verkhoyansk Range, part of the East Siberian System. Administratively the mountain chain belongs to ...

, in the east by the

and to the south and east flows the

Allakh-Yun River The Allakh-Yun (, , ''Aallaax Üün'') is a river in Sakha Republic and Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is a right tributary of the Aldan. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . Geography The Allakh-Yun arises at an elevation of around as the out ...

valley, beyond which rise the

Dzhugdzhur Range The Dzhugdzhur () or Jugjur, meaning "big bulge" in Evenki, are a mountain range along the western shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, located in Khabarovsk Krai in the far east of Siberia. The mountains are quite deserted, the one exception being ...

and the

Stanovoy Highlands The Stanovoy Highlands () or Stanovoy Uplands is a mountain range in the Transbaikal region of Siberia, Russia. Geography The Stanovoy Highlands are a mountainous area between the Patom Highlands to the north and the Vitim Plateau to the south. ...

, to the west by the

Aldan River The Aldan ( Sakha and ) is the second-longest right tributary of the Lena in the Sakha Republic in eastern Siberia.Lena Plateau The Lena Plateau, also known as Prilensky Plateau (; ), is one of the great plateaus of Siberia. Administratively it is mostly within the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), with a small sector in the Irkutsk Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. T ...

. To the northeast rises the

Suntar-Khayata Range Suntar-Khayata Range (, ) is a granite mountain range rising along the border of the Sakha Republic in the north with Amur Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai in the south. The R504 Kolyma Highway passes through the northern part of the range by Kyubeme ...

and to the east, the

. The highest point of the Sette-Daban is an unnamed peak reaching . The area of the range is crossed from north to south by the

Yudoma The Yudoma () is a river in Khabarovsk Krai and Yakutia, Russian Federation. Its length in and its basin is (about the size of Switzerland). It joins the Maya which joins the Aldan which joins the Lena which flows into the Arctic Ocean. Geogr ...

river valley. The Eastern Khandyga River, the Tyry and the

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have their sources in the range.

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Flora and fauna

The slopes of the range are covered by

larch Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus ''Larix'', of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from tall, they are native to the cooler regions of the northern hemisphere, where they are found in lowland forests in the high la ...

forests, giving way to

dwarf cedar ''Pinus sibirica'', or Siberian pine, in the family Pinaceae is a species of pine tree that occurs in Siberia from 58°E in the Ural Mountains east to 126°E in the Stanovoy Range in southern Sakha Republic, and from Igarka at 68°N in the lowe ...

thickets and

mountain tundra Alpine tundra is a type of natural region or biome that does not contain trees because it is at high elevation, with an associated harsh climate. As the latitude of a location approaches the poles, the threshold elevation for alpine tundra gets ...

at elevations above .Sette-Daban //

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: (in 30 vols.) / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. The lower altitudes of the Sette-Daban mountains provide a habitat for the Siberian Wood Frog and the

Siberian Salamander ''Salamandrella keyserlingii'', the Siberian salamander, is a species of salamander found in Northeast Asia. It lives in wet woods and riparian groves. Distribution It is found primarily in Siberia east of the Sosva River and the Urals, in ...

References

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Moss flora of Sette-Daban Range (Yakutia)Liverworts of the Sette-Daban Range (Eastern Yakutia)
Verkhoyansk Range Mountain ranges of Khabarovsk Krai {{KhabarovskKrai-geo-stub sah:Сэттэ Дабаан, сис

History

Geography

Flora and fauna

See also

References

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