Stanovoi Mountains
| Stanovoi Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Skalisty ( 2412 m ) | |
| location | Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Amur Oblast , Siberia , Russia ( Asia ) | |
| part of | South Siberian Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 56 ° N , 128 ° E | |
The Stanovoi Mountains , also Stanowoj Mountains , ( Russian Становой хребет , scientific transliteration Stanovoj chrebet ) in Siberia ( Russia , Asia ) is a high mountain range of the South Siberian Mountains towering up to 2412 m . It is located in the Russian Far East Federal District . The Stanowoi Highlands are located about 670 km to the west-northwest .
Geographical location
The Stanovoi Mountains are located in the South Siberian Mountains on the southern border of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) to the Amur Oblast . It rises about 570 km south of the Lena knee. The mountains in which the Aldan river rises are largely bounded in the north by the Aldan highlands . In the southeast it goes over a connecting mountain range up to 2020 m high and over the valley of the Seja , in which the Seja dam and the city of Seja are located, into the Jagdy Mountains and in the southwest into the Tukuringra Mountains . The mountains are about 700 km long, a maximum of 180 km wide and between 1500 and 2000 m high. Part of the watershed between the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific runs through the mountains .
history
Until 1858 the border between Russia and China ran on the ridge of the mountain range, which the Chinese call the "Outer Hinggan Mountains " (外 兴安岭Wai Xing'an Ling ) to this day.
traffic
The Amur-Yakut Magistrale (AJAM) railway line crosses the Stanowoy Mountains in the central part, north of Tynda , with a winding section of the route, with the pass at around 1040 m from the 1300 m long Nagorny Tunnel as a crest tunnel . In the vicinity, the road connection to the capital of the Sakha Republic, Yakutsk , crosses the M56 “Lena” federal car route (unofficially also “Amur-Yakut car route”), the main ridge of the mountains.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Article Stanowoy Mountains in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ Topographic map (1: 500.000, Bl. N-52-B, edition 1986), section of the eastern part of the Stanowoy Mountains (above) and a. with the highest mountain (top center) and from there to the south flowing upper reaches of the Seja (Зе́я; top center to about center left), on mapn52.narod.ru