The Yana-Oymyakon Highlands ( Russian : Яно-Оймяконское нагорье , romanized : Yano-Oymyakonskoye Nagorye ; Yakut : Дьааҥы хаптал хайалара ), also known as Oymyakon Highlands ( Russian : Оймяконское нагорье , romanized : Oymyakonskoye Nagorye ), are a mountainous area in the Sakha Republic , Khabarovsk Krai and Magadan Oblast , Far Eastern Federal District , Russia. The area is named after the main features of the highlands.
12-679: Kigilyakhs are found in some places of the plateaus. These are rock formations that are valued in Yakut culture . The Yana-Oymyakon Highlands are a mountain region of the East Siberian System located between the southern reaches of the Verkhoyansk Range to the west, the Suntar-Khayata Range to the southwest and the Chersky mountain range to the northeast. The main highland features are
24-563: Is separated from the mainland by a 2 km wide sound. Geologically Kolosovykh Island is part of the Minina Skerries a coastal archipelago forming a complex structure that includes the Plavnikovyye Islands further south. The highest point of the island is 85 m high Gora Kolosovykh Hill. The sea surrounding Kolosovykh Island is covered with fast ice in the winter and the climate is severe, with bitter and long winters. The waters off
36-837: 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 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
48-476: The Indigirka River flows in the southeastern part with its tributaries Tuora-Yuryakh , Kuydusun , Agayakan , Kyuyente , Elgi , and other minor ones. Forests of larch taiga generally cover the lower slopes of the mountain ranges and there are steppe areas in some places on the southern slopes. The mountaintops are covered with mountain tundra . Willows and poplars may grow in the floodplains of
60-583: The Kara Sea off the coast of Siberia . Kolosovykh Island is located north of the Kolosovykh Peninsula , which is almost an island itself. The island's shore is deeply indented with two deep bays on both sides of a narrow 1.2 km wide isthmus that joins the northern from the southern part of the island. Ostrov Bol'shoy , a fairly large island with a diameter of 3 km, is located in the eastern bay. Kolosovykh has an average height of 13 m above sea level. and
72-574: The Kigilyakh Peninsula at the western end of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island , one of the New Siberian Islands, Vladimir Voronin , then in charge of the Polar station on the island, was shown a large standing rock which had been heavily eroded and which gave its name to the peninsula. Popova-Chukchina Kolosovykh Island ( Russian : остров Колосовых ; Ostrov Kolosovykh) is an island, in
84-635: The intermontane basins . 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 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
96-622: The northwestern end of the highland area. The upper course of the Yana River flows through the northwestern part of the Yana-Oymyakon Highlands with its following tributaries: Bytantay , Dulgalakh , Sartang , Adycha , Borulakh , Nelgese , Derbeke and Charky , among others. The Delinya , a right tributary of the Tompo —part of the Lena basin, flows from the central part of the highlands, and
108-750: The shores are often obstructed by pack ice even in the summer. This island belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of Russia and is part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve , the largest nature reserve of the Russian Federation . In 1937 the Arctic Institute of the USSR organized an expedition to investigate the Northern Sea Route in the Kara Sea. Relics of
120-464: 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 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
132-504: The upper course of the Yana River to the northwest, and to the southeast between 1,400 meters (4,600 ft) and 1,500 meters (4,900 ft) in the Oymyakon plateau. Individual peaks of the ranges rise up to 2,000 meters (6,600 ft). The whole zone is characterized by harsh, cold winters and is very sparsely populated. The main towns are Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk , the latter close to
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#1733202006361144-616: The vast Yana Plateau in the northwest, the Elgi Plateau in the middle and the Oymyakon Plateau in the southeast. The highlands include the Kuydusun and Agalkin intermontane basins , as well as mountain chains of moderate altitude, such as the Nelgesin and Tirekhtyakh ranges. The average height of the plateau surface is between 300 meters (980 ft) and 700 meters (2,300 ft) in
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