The Bureya Range (, ''Bureinskiy Khrebet'') is a

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in the

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and

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in the southern part of the

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. The Dusse-Alin Tunnel on the

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crosses the range to enter the Amgun River valley. The Bastak Nature Reserve, a

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, is located in the southeastern corner of the range.

Geography

The Bureya Range consists of a number of separate ridges with a total length of about 400 km and with a maximum height of .Bureya Range
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: (in 30 vols.) / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. To the northeast it connects with the Badzhal Range. The range forms the

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of the Bureya,

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and Urmi rivers. The sources of the Selemdzha River are located at the northern end, where other three ranges meet the Bureya mountain chain, the Dusse-Alin from the south, the Ezop Range from the west and the Yam-Alin from the north.

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The Dusse-Alin and Yam-Alin are a northern prolongation of the Bureya Range.Ям-Алинь
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: (in 30 vols.) - Ch. ed.

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. - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. Mount Studencheskaya is located in the southern part of the Bureya Range. At , it is the highest point of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.

Flora

The slopes of the range are covered by conifer and deciduous forests.

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Brucite deposits of the lesser Khingan / southern Bureya rangeGeochemical characteristics of precious metal-bearing carbonaceous sequences from the eastern Bureya Massif
Mountain ranges of Khabarovsk Krai Landforms of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Geography

Flora

See also

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