Central Yakut lowland
The Central Yakut Valley is one of the seven major Russian landscapes of Siberia . It is located at the transition from Central to Eastern Siberia in the Lena river basin and largely in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
geography
The Central Yakut lowland mainly includes the lower valleys of Lena and Wiljui , but also the lower Aldan valley . The approximately 1 million km² extensive lowland is bounded in the west by the Central Siberian highlands and in the east by the East Siberian highlands .
In the area where the Wiljui flows into the Lena, the rivers with their sediment deposits have formed an extensive lowland that narrows more and more to a breakthrough valley to the north towards the Lena mouth ; only after the Lena has passed it does the current flow into its large estuary delta , where it finally pours into the Laptev Sea .
Like most northern Siberian landscapes, this lowland is also shaped by swamps , the boreal coniferous forest (taiga) and the tundra . It was also formed by the ice age glaciers and by the influx of water that resulted from the thawing ice masses after the cold ages. The rivers are also currently shaping the landscape with their sediments and the masses of ice and snow in winter .
The lowlands are only sparsely populated, with the exception of its southern end near the city of Yakutsk , which is already in the middle reaches of the Lena. The few larger settlements on the lower reaches are exclusively close to the river.
Basin, valley or lowland
Often that is Mitteljakutische lowland also Mitteljakutisches lowlands , Jakutisches pool or Mitteljakutisches pool called; the latter, however, is misleading because this landscape is not a basin , but a lowland . It got the wrong name because of its basin-like shape in several places.