The Sunnagyn Range (russian: Суннагын), also known as Aldan-Uchur (russian: Алда́но-Учу́рский хребе́т; sah, Алдан-Учур), is a range of mountains in North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Sakha Republic,

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Geography

The Sunnagyn is the highest subrange of the

Aldan Highlands The Aldan Highlands, or Aldan Plateau ( rus, Алданское нагорье, r=Aldanskoye Nagorye; sah, Алдан үрдэлэ) are a mountainous area in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Aldan town and Tommot are l ...

of the

South Siberian System The South Siberian Mountains ( rus, Южно-Сибирские горы) are one of the largest mountain systems of the Russian Federation. The total area of the system of mountain ranges is more than 1.5 million km². The South Siberian Mountain ...

. It rises at the northeastern edge of the highlands, south of the right bank of the

Aldan River The Aldan (russian: Алдан) is the second-longest, right tributary of the Lena in the Sakha Republic in eastern Siberia.Timpton The Timpton (russian: Тимптон; sah, Төмтөөн) is a river in Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It is a right tributary of the Aldan River of the Lena basin. It has a length of and a drainage basin area of . There are no settlemen ...

to the west, and the

Uchur The Uchur (russian: Учур; sah, Учур, ''Uçur'') is a river in Khabarovsk Krai and Yakutia in Russia, a right tributary of the Aldan ( Lena's basin). The length of the river is . The area of its drainage basin is . The Uchur freezes up i ...

to the east. The Gynym, a tributary of the Uchur, marks the southern border of the range. Google EarthURSS 1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet D-7
/ref> The mountaintops of the range are dome-shaped or flattened and the highest point of the Sunnagyn is an unnamed high summit located in the central zone.

Flora

The mountain slopes and the river valleys of the Sunnagyn Range are 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 furt ...

forests. Thickets of dwarf cedar grow at higher altitudes 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 ...

above the treeline.

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Rare birds of the Aldan highlands (South Yakutia)
Mountain ranges of the Sakha Republic Aldan Highlands South Siberian Mountains ceb:Aldano-Uchurskiy Khrebet pl:Sunnagyn ru:Суннагын sah:Алдан - Учур

Geography

Flora

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