The Northern Muya Range (russian: Се́веро-Му́йский хребе́т, translit=Severo-Muyskiy khrebet) is a mountain range in Buryatia,

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, part of the

Stanovoy Highlands The Stanovoy Highlands ( rus, Станово́е наго́рье) 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 ...

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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 ...

(BAM) railway traverses the southern end of the mountain range via the

Severomuysky Tunnel Severomuysky Tunnel (russian: Северому́йский тонне́ль) is a railroad tunnel on the Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM), in northwestern Buryatia, Russia. It is named after the Northern Muya Range it cuts through. The tunnel is long ...

Geography

The Northern Muya Range stretches from the valley of the Svetlaya river, a left tributary of the Upper Angara, in the southwest, to the valley of the

Vitim Vitim (russian: Витим) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Modern localities *Vitim, Sakha Republic, an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Lensky District of the Sakha Republic * Vitim, Republic of Buryatia, a ...

in the northeast. The Upper Angara Depression lies to the northwest and the Muya-Kuanda Depression to the southeast. To the north it runs parallel with the Delyun-Uran Range just south of it,Физическая география СССР - Ландшафтные области гор Южной Сибири - Байкальско-Становая область
/ref> and to the south with the Muyakan Range. The highest summit of the range is a high mountain located in its extreme southwestern part. Peaks and ridges have sharp glacial shapes in the central sector of the range, while flat summits predominate on the periphery. In its southwestern part the Northern Muya Range is broken by the valley of the Kotera.

Hydrography

The Northern Muya Range separates the basins of the

Upper Angara The Upper Angara (, ''Verkhnyaya Angara''; , ''Deede Angar'') is a river in Buryatia, Siberia to the northeast of Lake Baikal. the third longest river in the Baikal basin. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . The Baikal–Amur Mainline run ...

and

Muya River The Muya (russian: Муя) is a left tributary of the Vitim in Buryatia, Russia. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . The area through which the river flows is sparsely populated, the only settlement on the river being Taksimo, with the sm ...

s. Among the rivers having their sources in the range are the

and its left tributaries Yanchui and Angarakan, several

tributaries, such as the Mamakan and Muya, as well as rivers Parama and Yanguda, originate from it.

Flora

The slopes of the range are mainly covered with

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 fur ...

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, spruc ...

, with

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 ...

above . The river valleys are swampy with meadows and

pine A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The World Flora Online created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden accepts ...

forests on the lower slopes and the north-facing sides.

References

External links

* Mountain ranges of Russia Physiographic provinces Mountains of Buryatia Stanovoy Highlands {{Buryatia-geo-stub

Geography

Hydrography

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