The Ulakhan-Chistay Range (russian: Улахан-Чистай; sah, Улахан Чыыстай сис) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of 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 ...

of the

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.''Ulakhan-Chistay'' /

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; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov. 2004—2017. A section of the range, including the upper course of the

Moma River The Moma (russian: Мома; sah, Муома) is a river in Yakutia in Russia, a right tributary of the Indigirka. The length of the river is , the area of its drainage basin is . The extinct cinder cone volcanoes Balagan-Tas and Uraga-Tas ar ...

basin, as well as the Buordakh Massif with Mount Pobeda, is part of the

Moma Natural Park Moma Natural Park or Moma Nature Park (russian: Момский природный парк, ''Momsky Pryrodny Park''; sah, Аан Айылгы, ''Aan Aiylgy'') is a protected area of the Momsko-Chersk Region of Yakutia in the upper part of the Mo ...

, one of the

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Geography

The Ulakhan-Chistay Range is the highest subrange of the

Chersky Range The Chersky Range (, ) is a chain of mountains in northeastern Siberia between the Yana River and the Indigirka River. Administratively the area of the range belongs to the Sakha Republic, although a small section in the east is within Magadan O ...

system. It displays a clear Alpine relief and extends from NW to SE for about south of the

Moma Range The Moma Range (russian: Момский хребет, ''Momsky Khrebet''; sah, Муома сиһэ) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation.''Momsky ...

. It is parallel to the latter and separated from it by a wide

intermontane basin Intermontane is a physiographic adjective formed from the prefix " inter-" (''signifying among, between, amid, during, within, mutual, reciprocal'') and the adjective "montane" (inhabiting, or growing in mountainous regions, especially cool, moi ...

, where the

Ulakhan-Chistay River The Ulakhan-Chistay Range (russian: Улахан-Чистай; sah, Улахан Чыыстай сис) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation.''Ula ...

and the

flow from the southeast and join the

Indigirka The Indigirka ( rus, Индиги́рка, r=; sah, Индигиир, translit=Indigiir) is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia between the Yana (river), Yana to the west and the Kolyma River, Kolyma to the east. It is long. The area of its ...

. From the southwest the range is bound by the Erikit River, a left tributary of the Moma, and the

Nera Plateau The Nera Plateau ( rus, Нерское плоскогорье, sah, Ньара хаптал хайалаах сирэ) is a mountain plateau in the southeastern Sakha Republic ( Oymyakon District) and the northwestern end of Magadan Oblast ( S ...

, beyond which rises the

Tas-Kystabyt The Tas-Kystabyt ( rus, Тас-Кыстабыт, sah, Таас Кыстаабыт) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic and Magadan Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. It is also known as "хребе́т Са́рычева" —Sa ...

, also known as (Sarychev Range).

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The highest point of the Ulakhan-Chistay Range is high Mount Pobeda. It is the highest mountain of the Chersky Range and also the highest of Yakutia. In the range there are

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s with a total area of about . Moma Range ONC C-6

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* Chersky Range {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub

Geography

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