The Ezop Range (russian: Хребет Эзоп) is a range of mountains in far
North-eastern Russia. Administratively it belongs partly to
Amur Oblast
Amur Oblast ( rus, Аму́рская о́бласть, r=Amurskaya oblast, p=ɐˈmurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers in the Russian Far East. The administrativ ...
and partly to the
Khabarovsk Krai of the
Russian Federation
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North Asia or Northern Asia, also referred to as Siberia, is the northern region of Asia, which is defined in geographic ...
.
The range is part of the Ezop /
Yam-Alin volcanic zone.
[Geological scheme of the Ezop and Yam-Alin volcanic zones](_blank)
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Geography
The Ezop is a range in northeastern Siberia, located in the eastern end of Amur Oblast and the southwestern side of Khabarovsk Krai. It is part of the Yankan - Tukuringra - Soktakhan - Dzhagdy group of mountain ranges.[Эзоп (горный хребет)](_blank)
// Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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The Ezop Range runs in a roughly east/west direction for about . The Selemdzha River
The Selemdzha () is a river in the Amur Region of Russia. It is the biggest, left tributary of the Zeya. The length of the river is 647 km. The area of its basin 68,600 km².
Course
The Selemdzha has its source where three mountain r ...
has its sources in the range.
To the north of the mountain chain rises the Selemdzha Range running roughly parallel to it. The northern end of the Turan Range meets the southern slopes of the range from the south. At the eastern end rise the Yam-Alin and Dusse-Alin ranges, which run in a north/south direction in Khabarovsk Krai. To the southwest lies the Zeya-Bureya Lowland.[ Google Earth] The highest point of the Ezop is a high unnamed summit.[''Topographic Map'' N-53; М 1:1 000 000](_blank)
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Flora
The slopes of the range are covered by 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, spruces ...
, mainly consisting of larch
Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus ''Larix'', of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from tall, they are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in the north and high on mountains furt ...
, up to elevations of .
See also
* Northeast Siberian taiga
*Palearctic realm
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Si ...
*Temperate coniferous forest
Temperate coniferous forest is a terrestrial biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Temperate coniferous forests are found predominantly in areas with warm summers and cool winters, and vary in their kinds of plant life. In some, needlel ...
References
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External links
Gorny Journal, 1905
Mountain ranges of Amur Oblast
Mountain ranges of Khabarovsk Krai
Mountain ranges of Russia