Penzhinsky District ( Russian : Пе́нжинский райо́н ) is an administrative and municipal district ( raion ) of Koryak Okrug in Kamchatka Krai, Russia , one of the eleven in the krai . It is located in the northwest of the krai. Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo ) of Kamenskoye . Population: 2,340 ( 2010 Census ) ; 2,990 ( 2002 Census ) ; 5,301 ( 1989 Soviet census ) . The population of Kamenskoye accounts for 28.0% of the district's total population.
4-482: Ethnic composition (2021): The area of the district is 116,086 square kilometers (44,821 sq mi). The Ichigem Range , the northwesternmost range of the Koryak Highlands , rises in the district. Rivers Penzhina , Belaya, Oklan , Esgichninvayam and Zhirovaya are the main rivers flowing through the territory of the district. Ichigem Range The Ichigem Range ( Russian : Ичигемский Хребет )
8-579: A barren look. The highest point of the range is an unnamed 1,465 metres (4,806 ft) high peak, located in the central sector of the range. There are numerous vestiges of ancient glaciation in the Ichigem Range, but no modern glaciers. River Oklan has its sources in Mount Stolovaya of the western part of the Ichigem and flows roughly eastwards along the southern limits of the range, beyond which rises
12-634: Is a range of mountains in Magadan Oblast and Kamchatka Krai , Russian Far East . Administratively most of the range falls within the Penzhinsky District of Kamchatka Krai, but the western end reaches into the Severo-Evensky District of Magadan Oblast. The area of the Ichigem Range was first mapped by geographer and ethnologist Baron Gerhard von Maydell (1835–1894) during his pioneering research of East Siberia. The Ichigem Range
16-553: Is the northwesternmost range of the Koryak Highland system. It stretches from WSW to ENE between the upper Penzhina valley to the north and the basin of the Oklan , a Penzhina right tributary, to the south. The Kolyma Mountains rise at the western limit of the range and the waterlogged lower Penzhina valley marks its eastern end. The mountains of the Ichigem are of moderate altitude. They are covered with tundra vegetation and have
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