The Skalisty Range (russian: Скалистый хребет; sah, Скалистай) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia, part of the East Siberian System. Administratively the mountain chain belongs to the

Sakha Republic Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far Eas ...

. The area of the range is remote and desolate. The R504 Kolyma Highway passes through the northern part of the range.

History

The Skalisty Range, meaning "rocky" owing to numerous pointed crags of naked rock crowning the range, was relatively unknown until 1934. It was first surveyed by an expedition sent by the government of the Soviet Union led by geologist

Yuri Bilibin Yuri Alexandrovich Bilibin (russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Били́бин; 19 May 1901 in Rostov – 4 May 1952 in Leningrad) was a Soviet geologist. Biography Between 1919-1921 he served in the Red Army. In 1926 he graduated f ...

(1901—1952) together with mining engineer Evgeny Bobin (1897—1941). Though located near the southern end of the Verkhoyansk Range, this remote mountain area had formerly not been considered part of it by geographers, along with the other ranges south and southeast of the course of the Aldan River and the

Tompo The Tompo (russian: Томпо) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, a right tributary of the Aldan, part of the Lena basin. River Tompo gives its name to the Tompo District. It flows across desolate regions, Topolinoye being the onl ...

. After conducting the first topographic survey of the area, Bilibin established that this range belongs to the Verkhoyansk Mountain System. Bilibin and Bobin also explored for the first time this range, along with the adjacent

Sette-Daban The Sette-Daban (russian: Сетте-Дабан, sah, Сэттэ Дабаан) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range belongs partly to the Sakha Republic and partly to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russia ...

and Yudoma-Maya Highlands.

Geography

The Skalisty Range stretches roughly from north to south for about to the east of the

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Tompo River The Tompo (russian: Томпо) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, a right tributary of the Aldan, part of the Lena basin. River Tompo gives its name to the Tompo District. It flows across desolate regions, Topolinoye being the onl ...

, which separates it from the Verkhoyansk Range proper. To the south the

Allakh-Yun Allakh-Yun (russian: Алла́х-Юнь; sah, Ааллаах Үүн) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Ust-Maysky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located from Ust-Maya, the administrative center of the district,''Regi ...

River valley separates it from the Yudoma-Maya Highlands. Both the Tompo and the Allakh Yun are tributaries of the Aldan River. To the northeast and east it connects with the Suntar-Khayata Range. In the southern part the

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and the

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, also tributaries of the Aldan, cut across the range dividing into separate sections. The highest point of the mountain chain is an unnamed peak reaching .

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Flora

The slopes of the range are covered by deciduous forests, giving way to mountain tundra at elevations above .

References

External links

Geography of Russia - Mountains of North-Eastern Siberia
(in Russian) Verkhoyansk Range Mountain ranges of the Sakha Republic {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub ceb:Skalistyy Khrebet (kabukiran sa Rusya, Respublika Sakha) ru:Скалистый хребет (Сибирь)

History

Geography

Flora

See also

References

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