Tscherski Mountains (Northeast Siberia)
| Tscherski Mountains | |
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 Location of the Tscherski Mountains |
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 The Pobeda , the highest peak in the mountains |
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| Highest peak | Pobeda ( 3003 m ) |
| location | Sakha Republic , Magadan Oblast , Russia ( Asia ) |
| part of | East Siberian mountain country |
| Coordinates | 65 ° N , 146 ° E |
The Tscherski Mountains ( Russian Хребет Черского , scientific transliteration Chrebet Čerskogo ; also Cerski Mountains ) is a high mountain range up to 3003 m high in the northeast of Siberia in the Asian part of Russia . It was named after the Polish-Russian explorer Iwan Tscherski (Jan Czerski, 1845-1892). It should not be confused with the Cherski Mountains of the same name in the Transbaikalia region .
geography
The Tscherski Mountains are about 700 km to the northeast from the Lena River , which flows through the Middle Yakut Lowlands in its middle and lower reaches , and from Yakutsk .
Located to the north and south of the Arctic Circle and in the middle of Eastern Siberia , the Tscherski Mountains as part of the Eastern Siberian Mountains border the Laptev Sea in the north . In the northeast is the Jana Indigirka Lowland (western part of the East Siberian Lowland ) and in the east it borders on the Moma Mountains . In the south-east it gradually descends to the Sea of Okhotsk : the southern foothills of the Tscherski Mountains, to which the Balogotchan chain with the 2286 m high Aborigine peak belongs, reach just before Magadan . In the south-west the mountains cross over the highlands of Oimjakon and in the north-west over the Jana Valley and the Kular Mountains beyond it into the Verkhoyansk Mountains .
Administratively, the territory of the mountains belongs almost exclusively to the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) ; only the southern foothills reach Magadan Oblast .
expansion
The almost 1000 km long Tscherski Mountains run roughly parallel to the Verkhoyansk Mountains , some 500 to 600 km further to the west ; if you include the southeastern foothills, which almost reach the Sea of Okhotsk, it is even more than 1200 km long.
Highest mountain and largest rivers
The Tscherski Mountains reach the Pobeda (about 180 km northeast of the city of Ust-Nera ) at an altitude of 3003 m . It separates the catchment areas of Lena and Kolyma , both of which flow into the Arctic Ocean . The mountains are traversed by the Indigirka .
Gold mining
Was and is chersky range either side of the Kolyma after gold mined - above and below ground . In the past, this also happened in penal camps (see gold mining in penal camps ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topographic map (1: 200.000, Bl. Q-55-XXVII, XXVIII, Ed. 1982), part of the Tscherski Mountains with the Pobeda (in the middle left at the top of the map) a. with the river Moma (diagonal top right), on mapq55.narod.ru (with heights above sea level )
Web links
- Article Tscherski Mountains in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)