Suullar Myraan ( sah, Сууллар Мыраан) is a hill in Megino-Kangalassky Ulus, in 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 ...

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. It is a long sand hill located by the

Suola River , image = Поход в Тектюр (14).jpg , image_size = , image_caption = The Suola River and Suullar Myraan hill near the village of Tyokhtyur , pushpin_map = Russia Sakha Republic , pushpin_ma ...

, a right hand tributary of the

Lena River The Lena (russian: Ле́на, ; evn, Елюенэ, ''Eljune''; sah, Өлүөнэ, ''Ölüöne''; bua, Зүлхэ, ''Zülkhe''; mn, Зүлгэ, ''Zülge'') is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean ...

. The hill stands out in the surrounding flat landscape. Its name means "leaning mountain" in the

Yakut language Yakut , also known as Yakutian, Sakha, Saqa or Saxa ( sah, саха тыла), is a Turkic language spoken by around 450,000 native speakers, primarily the ethnic Yakuts and one of the official languages of Sakha (Yakutia), a federal republic ...

. Suullar Myraan rises by the banks of the Suola river from Tyokhtyur village and from Tomtor.

History

There were conflicts in the past between Tyokhtyur and Tomtor villages regarding possession of Suullar Myraan. An almost complete skeleton of a

woolly mammoth The woolly mammoth (''Mammuthus primigenius'') is an extinct species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with '' Mammuthus subp ...

''(Mammuthus primigenius)'' was found in 2015 at the foot of the hill. Analysis of spore-pollen from rock samples of the site indicated that the climate of the area at the time that the mammoth lived was warmer than in present-day times.Paleontological studies of the “Suullar Myraan” area
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Beautiful places of the world - the valley of the river Suola /долина реки Суола Landscapes as a reflection of the toponyms of Yakutia
Hills of Russia Mountains of the Sakha Republic Tourist attractions in the Sakha Republic {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub