The Udokan Range (russian: хребет Удокан) is a mountain range in
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 ...
(Yakutia) and
Zabaykalsky Krai,
Russian Federation.
[ ] The nearest town is
Chara.
Google Earth
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There is
copper mining in the range at the
Udokan mine
The Udokan mine is a large mining, copper mine located in the south of Russia in Zabaykalsky Krai, around 30 km south of the town of Novaya Chara on the Baikal Amur Mainline.
The mine is part of the Udokan Ore Region that includes the Udokan ...
, part of the Udokan Ore Region that includes the
Kalar and
Kodar ranges.
[Udokan Ore Region](_blank)
/ '' Great Soviet Encyclopedia:'' in 30 vols. - Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. A stretch of the
Baikal–Amur Mainline passes through the range following the valley of the Khani river.
History
The Udokan was first described and mapped in 1857 by
A.F. Usoltsev, Lieutenant of the
Corps of Military Topographers of the Russian Imperial Army.
[ Obruchev V. A.,]
Шварц на юго-востоке Сибири (Schwartz in the southeast of Siberia)
(in Russian)
On 5 July 1965 an
Aeroflot
PJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines (russian: ПАО "Аэрофло́т — Росси́йские авиали́нии", ), commonly known as Aeroflot ( or ; russian: Аэрофлот, , ), is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Russia. The ...
Antonov An-2R struck a mountain of the Udokan Range on a flight between
Ust-Nyukzha and
Chara. The aircraft encountered poor weather with low clouds and rain while flying along the
Khani river valley. The plane struck the side of a mountain of the range at . The wreckage was found on 16 July 1969. There were three fatalities. The An-2 had been operating a
Tynda–Ust-
Nyukzha
The Nyukzha (russian: Нюкжа) is a river in Amur Oblast and Transbaikalia, East Siberia, Russian Federation. It is the second largest tributary of the Olyokma river in terms of length and area of its basin. The Nyukzha is long and has a drai ...
–Chara cargo service.
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Geography
The Udokan Range rises in the central area of the Stanovoy Highlands, to the south of the upper course of the Chara, a left tributary of the Olyokma. It stretches from SW to NE for roughly from the middle northern slopes of the Kalar Range
The Kalar Range (russian: Каларский хребет, translit=Kalarskiy khrebet) is a mountain range in Zabaykalsky Krai and the NW end of Amur Oblast, Russian Federation. The highest point of the range is high Skalisty Golets. Google Earth
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to the river valley of the Olyokma, a right tributary of the Lena. To the north it borders with the Olyokma-Chara Plateau —in the upper reaches of the Chara river.
To the south the range is bound by the valley of the Khani river, a left tributary of the Olyokma. The highest summit is a high unnamed ultra prominent peak.[Udokan](_blank)
/ '' Great Soviet Encyclopedia:'' in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Soviet-Russian physicist known ...
. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
The range is part of the Baikal Rift Zone The Baikal Rift Zone is a series of continental rifts centered beneath Lake Baikal in southeastern Russia. Current strain in the rifts tends to be extending with some shear movement. A series of basins form along the zone for more than , creating a ...
and displays signs of volcanic relief at its southwestern end, in the area where it merges with the Kalar Range.
Hydrography
A number of rivers have their sources in the range, including the Tokko and the Kalar. There are also glacial landforms and sediments that are remnants of Pleistocene glaciation.
Flora
The lower slopes of the range are mainly covered by larch taiga, with pre-alpine woodland, mountain tundra and bare rocky summits ''(golets)'' at higher elevations.
See also
*Baikal Rift Zone The Baikal Rift Zone is a series of continental rifts centered beneath Lake Baikal in southeastern Russia. Current strain in the rifts tends to be extending with some shear movement. A series of basins form along the zone for more than , creating a ...
* List of mountains and hills of Russia
* List of ultras of Northeast Asia
References
Stanovoy Highlands
Mountain ranges of Russia
Mountain ranges of the Sakha Republic
Mountains of Zabaykalsky Krai
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