The Ukelayat Range (russian: хребет Укэлаят) is a range of mountains in

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. The range is part of the Koryak Highland system and administratively it belongs to

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The name of the range comes from the Koryak ''"vukvylgayat"'' ''(Вуквылгаят)'', meaning "rock/fall".

Geography

The Ukelayat Range rises above the southern side of the valley of the

Ukelayat The Ukelayat (russian: Укэлаят; Koryak: Вуквылгаят) is a river in Kamchatka Krai, Russia. The length of the river is and the area of is drainage basin . The name of the river comes from the Koryak ''"vukvylgayat"'' ''(Вук� ...

river. It stretches in a roughly east–west direction with its eastern end close to the

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, between Dezhnyov Bay and Anastasii Bay. To the south rises the Snegovoy Range and to the north, above the other bank of the Ukelayat river, the Pikas Range.Atlas of Russia
/ref> The highest point is

Ledyanaya Ledyanaya (russian: Ледяная, meaning "Icy"), is a peak in the Koryak Mountains. Administratively it is part of the Kamchatka Krai, Russian Federation.Google Earth This high mountain is the highest point of the Koryak Mountains. It is a r ...

, a high rocky peak topped by an

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, which is also the highest point of the Koryak Highlands.Ledyanaya - Peak Visor
/ref> To the east, not far from the sea, rises high Mt Undyer (гора Ундер). The Ukelayat Range has also the largest glacier of the highland area, the Slozhny Glacier with a surface of . The range includes two of the three major glacier regions of the Koryak Highlands, having 344 glaciers with a total area of .Рундквист Н. Каприз ''блуждающего пальца. Корякское нагорье'' // Широко шагая. — Екатеринбург: Квист, 2014. — 576 с
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Flora and fauna

The mountains are covered with

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 ...

, bare rocky areas,

dwarf forest Dwarf forest, elfin forest, or pygmy forest is an uncommon ecosystem featuring miniature trees, inhabited by small species of fauna such as rodents and lizards. They are usually located at high elevations, under conditions of sufficient air humi ...

s and shrub birches. Willow thickets, with diamondleaf willow, feltleaf willow and Salix krylovii, may be found in some of the river valleys.V. Yu. Neshataeva, ''Vegetation cover of the North of the Kamchatka Okrug (Kamchatsky Krai) and its geobotanical zoning'' // Ecology and geography of plants and plant communities: Proceedings of the IV International Scientific Conference. - Yekaterinburg, 2018. - April 16. — ISBN 978-5-7741-0341-6 The Ukelayat Range provides a habitat for the

snow sheep The snow sheep (''Ovis nivicola''), or Siberian bighorn sheep, is a species of sheep from the mountainous areas in the northeast of Siberia. One subspecies, the Putorana snow sheep ''(Ovis nivicola borealis)'', lives isolated from the other forms ...

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The Penzhina-West Kamchatka folded zone and the Ukelayat-Sredinnyi block in the structure of the Koryak Highland and KamchatkaMountain - Russia
Koryak Mountains Landforms of Siberia {{KamchatkaKrai-geo-stub

Geography

Flora and fauna

See also

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