The Shchuchy Range (russian: Щучий хребет),
is a range of mountains in
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Chukotka (russian: Чуко́тка), officially the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug,, ''Čukotkakèn avtonomnykèn okrug'', is the easternmost federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia. It is an autonomous okrug situated in the Russian ...
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Russian Far East. Administratively the range is part of the
Anadyr District.
The village of
Markovo is located about to the SSE of the range near the eastern side of its southern end.
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Geography
The Shchuchy Range extends for roughly in a NNE/SSW direction from the southeastern end of the
Anadyr Plateau
The Anadyr Highlands ( rus, Анадырское нагорье, r=Anadyrskoye Nagorye) are a mountainous area in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.
Geography
The Anadyr Highlands are one of the two main mountai ...
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[Анадырское плоскогорье](_blank)
Great Soviet Encyclopedia To the west the mountain range is limited by the course of the
Anadyr River, which flows first southwards, then makes a wide bend at the southern end of the range, and then flows roughly northeastwards in a wide valley. Numerous tributaries of the Anadyr have their source on both sides of the range.
The highest point of the Shchuchy Range is high Gora Shchuchya (гора щучья).
[АНА́ДЫРСКОЕ ПЛОСКОГО́РЬЕ - Большая российская энциклопедия](_blank)
/ref> To the northwest of the range rises the Anyuy Range, stretching in a roughly western direction, and to the west of the SW end of the range rises the Oloy Range of the Kolyma Mountains
The Kolyma Mountains or Kolyma Upland ( rus, Колымское нагорье, r=Kolymskoye Nagorye) is a system of mountain ranges in northeastern Siberia, lying mostly within the Magadan Oblast, along the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk in the Ko ...
.[ Чуванайские горы, National atlas of Russia](_blank)
/ref> The Shchuchy Range is part of the East Siberian System of mountains and is one of the subranges of the Anadyr Highlands.[Oleg Leonidovič Kryžanovskij, ''A Checklist of the Ground-beetles of Russia and Adjacent Lands.'' p. 16]
See also
* List of mountains and hills of Russia
References
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External links
O.Yu.Glushkova, ''Late Pleistocene Glaciations in North-East Asia''
Mountain ranges of Russia
Mountain ranges of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Landforms of Siberia