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14-616: The town is located in the Patom Highlands , on the right bank of the Vitim River at its confluence with the Bodaybo River. Besides Bodaybo, some of the settlements of the district are Aprilsk , Artyomovsky , Balakhninsky , Kropotkin , Mamakan , Svetly , Vasilievsky , Perevoz and Bolshoy Patom . It was founded in 1864 and served the needs of the local gold mining industry. The Lena massacre took place near Bodaybo in 1912. It

28-525: A height of 1,200 meters (3,900 ft). Further up the mountaintops are covered with stony tundra . Kropotkin Range Kropotkin Range ( Russian : Хребет Кропоткина ) is a mountain range in Bodaybinsky District , Irkutsk Oblast , Russian Federation . The settlements of Kropotkin and Artyomovsky are located in the area of the range. In the course of the 1901 exploration of

42-549: Is extreme continental and cold. The average annual temperature is −5.5 °C (22.1 °F). In January the temperature goes down to −31 °C (−24 °F) and in July the temperature reaches a maximum of 18 °C (64 °F). There are taiga forests of conifers, mostly larch , in the slopes of the mountains up to 900 meters (3,000 ft) to 1,100 meters (3,600 ft), often mixed with Siberian pine . At higher altitudes these give way to thickets of dwarf Siberian pine up to

56-608: Is quite low, but falls mostly in summer, with the climate being arid at other times of the year. Patom Highlands The Patom Highlands (Russian: Патомское нагорье ) are a mountainous area in Eastern Siberia , Russia. Administratively most of the territory of the uplands is part of Irkutsk Oblast , with a smaller section in northern Zabaykalsky Krai . There are large deposits of gold in Bodaybo and Artyomovsky . Besides these two towns, other inhabited localities of

70-602: The selo of Nerpo in Bodaybinsky District, is incorporated within Bodaybinsky Municipal District as Bodaybinskoye Urban Settlement . The Bodaybo Airport is the only airport in Bodaybo and is quite small. It is served by Angara Airlines which flies only to Irkutsk . Bodaybo has a subarctic climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfc ), with bitterly cold winters and warm summers. Precipitation

84-821: The Chara , has its sources in the eastern slopes and limits the range in its southeastern section. From the southern slopes originate a few right tributaries of the Vitim , all of them small and short, such as the Takhtiga. In the northern slopes are the sources of some left tributaries of the upper course of the Bolshoy Patom , such as the Anangra and Mara. The lower slopes of the range are mainly covered by pine and larch taiga , with mountain tundra and band thickets of dwarf cedar at higher elevations. This Irkutsk Oblast location article

98-740: The Duma . The name of the highlands was first proposed by Peter Kropotkin in 1868. The Patom Highlands are bound by rivers Lena , Vitim and Chara . To the north the valley of the Lena separates the highlands from the Lena Plateau and to the southwest the Vitim River, a right tributary of the Lena, separates it from the Stanovoy and North Baikal Highlands . To the south rises the Kropotkin Range and beyond it

112-523: The Lena Goldfields led by Vladimir Obruchev , the area was first explored, studied, topographically photographed and mapped by Russian geologist and topographer Pavel Preobrazhensky . He named the mountain range in honor of Peter Kropotkin in 1902. The Kropotkin Range rises to the north of Bodaybo , stretching roughly for about 150 kilometres (93 mi) in a NW to SE direction from the southern part of

126-465: The Patom Highlands , roughly parallel to the course of the Vitim River to the southwest and west. The slopes of the Kropotkin Range are dissected by wide river valleys. The range summits are generally rounded and of moderate height. The highest peak is 1,647 metres (5,404 ft) high Golets Korolenko , a ‘’golets’’ -type of mountain with a bald peak. The Zhuya river, a left tributary of

140-664: The Vitim, left tributaries of the Chara, such as the Zhuya and Malba, and right tributaries of Lena, such as the Big Patom and Little Patom Rivers. The average height of the mountainous area is between 1,200 meters (3,900 ft) and 1,300 meters (4,300 ft). The highest point is a 1,924 metres (6,312 ft) high unnamed summit located at 57°39′8″N 117°47′19″E  /  57.65222°N 117.78861°E  / 57.65222; 117.78861 in

154-706: The mountain region are: Mama , Perevoz , Kropotkin , Svetly and Bolshoy Patom , Bodaybinsky District . In 1912 there was a massacre of striking workers of the Lena Goldfields, located in the Patom Highlands between the Lena and Vitim rivers. Strikers were protesting about harsh working conditions. Soldiers of the Imperial Russian Army intervened and fired upon protesters, causing hundreds of casualties. The incident provoked wide outrage across pre-revolutionary Russia when Alexander Kerensky reported it in

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168-466: The southeastern end, southeast of Lake Nichatka in Zabaykalsky Krai. Golets Longdor is a 1,771 metres (5,810 ft) high peak located at 58°25′14″N 116°46′12″E  /  58.42056°N 116.77000°E  / 58.42056; 116.77000 . The Patom crater is a cone of crushed limestone blocks located on the slopes of the Patom Highlands. The climate prevailing in the upland

182-654: The valley of the Vitim. To the east flows the Chara River, a left tributary of the Olyokma River of the Lena basin, which separates the highland area from the Olyokma-Chara Plateau . To the southeast the Patom Highlands connect with the Kodar Range of Transbaikalia . the river valleys cutting across the highlands are usually deep. Many rivers have their sources in the highlands, including some right tributaries of

196-402: Was granted town status in 1925. The Vitim event occurred on September 25, 2002 near the town. It was believed to be caused by a bolide or a comet nucleus impact. Within the framework of administrative divisions , Bodaybo serves as the administrative center of Bodaybinsky District , to which it is directly subordinated. As a municipal division , the town of Bodaybo, together with

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