Verkhny Zub (russian: Верхний Зуб; cjs, Амзас-Таскыл;Сибирская Советская энциклопедия. Том первый. А - Ж p. 96 kjh, Тигір тізі) is a peak in

Kemerovo Oblast Kemerovo Oblast — Kuzbass (russian: Ке́меровская о́бласть — Кузба́сс, translit=Kemerovskaya oblast — Kuzbass, ), also known simply as Kemerovo Oblast (russian: Ке́меровская о́бласть, label=non ...

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. It is the highest point of the

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.Gora Verkhniy Zub - Peak Visor
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Khakas language Khakas (also known as Xakas, endonym: хакас тілі, ''khakas tįlį'', тадар тілі, ''tadar tįlį'') is a Turkic language spoken by the Khakas people, who mainly live in the southwestern Siberian Khakas Republic, in Russia. The K ...

''"Тигір тізі"'' means "heavenly tooth".Kuznetsk Alatau - Great Soviet Encyclopedia
/ref> The mountain is part of the Kuznetsk Alatau State Nature Reserve, a

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Verkhny Zub is a high mountain located in the

Kuznetsk Alatau Kuznetsk Alatau (russian: Кузнецкий Алатау) is a mountain range in southern Siberia, Russia. The range rises in the Altai-Sayan region of the South Siberian Mountains, northwest of Mongolia. The Siberian Railway skirts the norther ...

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. It rises in the southern area of the range, in the

Mezhdurechensky Urban Okrug Mezhdurechensky Urban Okrug (russian: Междуре́ченский городско́й о́круг) is a municipal formation (an urban okrug) in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia,Law #104-OZ one of the sixteen urban okrugs in the oblast. Its territo ...

at the eastern limit of Kemerovo Oblast, near the border of

Khakassia Khakassia (russian: Хакасия; kjh, Хакасия, Хакас Чирі, ''Khakasiya'', ''Khakas Çiri''), officially the Republic of Khakassia (russian: Республика Хакасия, r=Respublika Khakasiya, ; kjh, Хакас Рес ...

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At the foot of the mountain there are numerous

cirque lake A (; from the Latin word ') is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic , meaning a pot or cauldron) and (; ). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform ...

s. Dark coniferous

taiga Taiga (; rus, тайга́, p=tɐjˈɡa; relates to Mongolic and Turkic languages), generally referred to in North America as a boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruce ...

grows on the lower mountain slopes. On steep slopes up to a height of there is

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 which there is the

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with snowfields at the top.Энциклопедия Республики Хакасия: � 2 т.(Encyclopedia of the Republic of Khakassia) / Правительство Респ. Хакасия; �ауч.-ред. совет.: В. А. Кузьмин (пред.) и др. — Абакан: Поликор, 2007. Т. 1: � — Н — 2007. — 430, с.: ил., портр. — Библиогр. в конце слов. ст. С. 109.

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Вершина Верхний зуб. Кузнецкий Алатау. Горный массив на юге Западной Сибири. Кемеровская область, ХакасияГора Верхний Зуб (2178 м) Wikimapia

Verkhny Zub Verkhny Zub (russian: Верхний Зуб; cjs, Амзас-Таскыл;Сибирская Советская энциклопедия. Том первый. А - Ж p. 96 kjh, Тигір тізі) is a peak in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. It is ...

Landforms of Kemerovo Oblast {{KemerovoOblast-geo-stub

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