Central Siberian mountain country

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The Central Siberian Mountains ( Russian Среднесибирское плоскогорье , Srednesibirskoje ploskogorje ) is one of the eight large Russian landscapes and a landscape of Siberia in the Asian part of Russia . It is located in the center of Siberia between the two great rivers Yenisei and Lena , about halfway from the Urals to the Russian Pacific coast.

Geographical location

The very extensive Central Siberian mountainous region has an area of ​​almost two million km² . It is bounded in the north by the North Siberian Lowland with the swampy Taimyr Depression , which lies south of the large Taimyr Peninsula . The southern boundary is formed by the various South Siberian mountains such as the Sajan Mountains , the Baikal and Stanowoy Mountains . In the west, the mountainous country ends on almost the entire north-south axis on the Yenisei , where the West Siberian lowlands border. To the east, the mountainous region extends to the Central Yakut lowland , which follows the lower reaches of the Lena and some tributaries. To the east of this river rises the Verkhoyansk Mountains , which already belong to the East Siberian mountainous region.

Landscape image

The landscape of the Central Siberian Mountains is determined by mostly large, highly fragmented plateaus and mountain chains, which rise on average between 500 and 700  m, but sometimes just over 1000  m high. For example, it is in the central Wiljuiplateau to 962  m and in the Southwest in the Jenisseibergen to 1104  m high. Maximum it reaches - in the northwestern putorana plateau  - 1701  meters altitude.

In the central Siberian mountain region , extensive boreal coniferous forests grow in the taiga , which merge into forest tundra and tundra towards the north . In these northern regions, because of the permafrost and low water content in the soil, tall plants such as trees cannot develop, but mosses , shrubs and ferns predominate.

Infrastructure

Because most of the roads of the vast Central Siberian Uplands are not fixed, they change - if the soil in the spring thaw - due to numerous rain in muddy slide slopes. This means that most of the year they are difficult or difficult to pass through. Only when they turn into concrete-hard slopes due to the frost in winter and the snow depth allows it, they can be safely skied again. The most important traffic routes are the rail network, some trunk roads, air connections and the shipping routes of the numerous rivers, provided they are not frozen over.

Mountain world

In the Central Siberian mountainous region there are, among others, these partial mountains (sorted by height above sea level , with location names) :

The highest mountain in the mountains is the Kamen in the Putorana Mountains ( 1701  m ).

Flowing waters

The rivers of the Central Siberian Mountains include - streams with tributaries , their tributaries or source rivers (selection):

Localities

The localities (with larger cities mainly in southern regions) in the Central Siberian Mountains , on its edges or partly in the transition area to the South Siberian Mountains include (sorted alphabetically):

Coordinates: 68 ° 0 '  N , 95 ° 0'  E