The Silyap Range ( rus, Силяпский хребет; sah, Силэп) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia),

Far Eastern Federal District The Far Eastern Federal District (russian: Дальневосто́чный федера́льный о́круг, ''Dalnevostochny federalny okrug'') is the largest of the eight federal districts of Russia but the least populated, with a p ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...

. The nearest city is

Ust-Nera Ust-Nera ( rus, Усть-Нера, r=; sah, Уус Ньара, translit=Uus Nyara) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Oymyakonsky District in Yakutia, Russia. Located in one of the coldest permanent ...

.Moss flora of the Ust-Nera region in the upper course of Indigirka River, East Yakutia
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Geography

The Silyap Range rises in the central area 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 ...

, to the west of the upper course of the

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

. Although the range is one of the smallest of the system, it has some of the most massive mountains of the range. The Silyap Range stretches in a roughly west–east direction for about . The highest peak is high

Mount Chyon Mount Chyon (russian: link=no, Гора Чён, translit=Gora Chyon), also known as "Gora Chen", is a mountain in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. At it is the highest summit in the Silyap Range, part of the central Chersky Range, East Si ...

(Гора Чён), also known as "Gora Chen", an

ultra-prominent peak An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500. The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or fro ...

.Массив Чен
/ref> The larger Borong Range, another subrange of the Chersky Mountains, rises to the northwest, and the Porozhny Range to the north. The northern end of 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 ...

rises roughly 70 km to the south of the range. Google Earth Хребет Черского (СВС)

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Поход 1958 года. Хребет Силяпский (горная страна Черского)- Hiking in 1958 in the Silyap Range (in Russian)Collecting localities in the upper course of Indigirka River near Ust-Nera SettlementLandscapes as a reflection of the toponyms of YakutiaRanges of Russia
Mountain ranges of the Sakha Republic Chersky Range

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