Kisilyakh-Tas (Russian: гора Кисилях-Тас ) is a mountain in Yakutia , Far Eastern Federal District , Russia. Administratively it belongs to the Lower Kolyma District .
7-450: This mountain is one of the renowned places of Yakutia where kigilyakhs are found. The largest of them are between 10 meters (33 ft) and 30 meters (98 ft) in height. Kigilyakhs are rock formations that are held in high esteem by Yakuts . Kisilyakh means "Mountain having a man" or "Mountain married" in the Yakut language . Mount Kisilyakh-Tas is a small, isolated mountain massif of
14-629: A man" or "mountain married". The term "kigilyakh" is a distorted form of the original Yakut "kisilyakh" . Such stones are found in different places of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia , mainly in the East Siberian Lowland : Outside of Yakutia, similar formations are found in the island of Popova-Chukchina and the Putorana Plateau , in Krasnoyarsk Krai . Ferdinand Wrangel reported on the kigilyakhs on Chetyryokhstolbovoy, an island of
21-411: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kigilyakh Kigilyakh or kisiliyakh (Russian: кигиляхи ; Yakut : киһилээх , meaning "stone person") are pillar-like natural rock formations looking like tall monoliths standing more or less isolated. Usually they are composed of granite or sandstone shaped as a result of cryogenic weathering . Most kigilyakhs formed during
28-519: The Cretaceous period and are about 120 million years old. These anthropomorphic rock pillars are an important feature in Yakut culture . Often they are slightly scattered, protruding from the surface of smooth mountains and giving the impression of a standing crowd of people. According to Yakut legends kigilyakhs originated in very ancient people. The Yakut word "kisiliy" means "a place where there are people". Kisilyakh means "mountain having
35-672: The Kolyma Lowland , located 40 kilometers (25 mi) east of the Suor Uyata range. It rises above the tundra on the right bank of the Alazeya , roughly 160 kilometres (99 mi) south of the river's mouth in the shores of the East Siberian Sea . Kisilyakh-Tas is located in a flat area, where there are only two other mountains nearby, a higher one to the SW and a smaller one to the west, both on
42-616: The Medvezhyi Islands in the East Siberian Sea . He visited the island during his 1821-1823 expedition and named it after them ( Chetyryokhstolbovoy meaning "four pillars"). The kigilyakhs on Chetyryokhstolbovoy Island are about 15 m (49 ft) high. In Soviet times on the Kigilyakh Peninsula at the western end of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island , one of the New Siberian Islands, Vladimir Voronin , then in charge of
49-555: The other side of the river. The three mountains are roughly at the same distance from each other. Andryushkino , the only inhabited place nearby, is located 60 kilometers (37 mi) to the SSW of Kisilyakh-Tas mountain, up the Alazeya. The mountain is difficult to reach in the summer, but could be reached in April on a snowmobile if the weather is fine. This Sakha Republic location article
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