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Chersky Stone
Chersky (masculine), Cherskaya (feminine), or Cherskoye (neuter) may refer to: *Jan Czerski (1845–1892), also known as Ivan Chersky, Polish scientist and explorer * Chersky (urban-type settlement), a municipal formation and settlement in Nizhnekolymsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia is incorporated *Chersky Airport, in the Sakha Republic, Russia *Chersky, alternative name of the Northeast Science Station, an Arctic research station in Russia *Chersky Range, a mountain chain in northeastern Siberia * Chersky Range (Transbaikalia) * Mount Chersky, the highest peak of the Baikal Mountains *Chersky Peak Chersky Peak (; ) is a mountain in the Komarinsky Range, Khamar-Daban, Russian Federation. This peak is named after Polish explorer Jan Czerski (1845–1892), who greatly contributed to the study of neighboring Lake Baikal. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Czerski
Jan Stanisław Franciszek Czerski, also known as Ivan Dementievich Chersky () or Yan Dominikovich Chersky (; – ), was a Polish, Belarusian, and Russian paleontologist, osteologist, geologist, geographer and explorer of Siberia. He was exiled to Transbaikalia for participating in the January Uprising of 1863. A self-taught scientist, he eventually received three gold medals from the Russian Geographical Society, and his name was given to a settlement, two mountain ranges, several peaks and other sites. He authored the first map of Lake Baikal. Biography Son of Xenia and Dominik Czerski, members of the Lithuanian-Polish nobility, he was born in Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now Belarus). At the age of 18, as a high-school student of the Institute for Nobles in Vilnius, he took part in the January Uprising (1863–1864). He was captured and taken prisoner on 28 April 1863, and then stripped of his noble status, his lands confiscated and repossessed by another family m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chersky (urban-type Settlement)
Chersky (also anglicized Cherskiy) (; , ''Çerskey'') is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Nizhnekolymsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Kolyma River, east from Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,857. It was previously known as ''Nizhniye Kresty'' (until 1963). In 1989 the population of Chersky peaked on 11,176 inhabitants; however, like most Soviet settlements in the Arctic, it has been largely abandoned after the dissolution of the Soviet Union as most of its residents left. A similar depopulation happened in Magadan Oblast and Chukotka, and in lighter scale in the Russian Far East. History It was founded as Nizhniye Kresty () in 1931. In 1963, it was granted urban-type settlement status''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic'' and renamed Chersky, after Jan Czerski, a Polish geographer who organized several expeditio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chersky Airport
Chersky Airport (also Cherskiy) is a small airport in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located south of the settlement of Chersky. It services small transport aircraft. History In November 1934, according to the action plan for the development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR), a group of flight and technical personnel with five R-5 and two U-2 aircraft were delivered to Providence Bay, and in March 1935 the aircraft were transported to Cape Schmidt, where the preparation of their base for flights between the settlements of Anadyr, Provideniya, Vankarem, Cape Schmidt. The first airport staff arrived in August 1940, led by the head of the airport, I. N. Kholutova. The first unpaved airfield was built on Vankin Island, 25 km from Nizhniye Kresty, but later a flat place was found on the spit of the Panteleikha River, where the airfield is now located. Since 1968, the Nizhnekolyma Aviation Enterprise based at the airport - later the Kolyma-Indigirsky Aviation Enterprise (KIAP), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northeast Science Station (Russia)
The Northeast Science Station of the RAS () is an Arctic research station located in Chersky, Sakha Republic in Northeast Siberia. It is one of the world's three largest Arctic stations. Description The Northeast Science Station is used as a year-round base for international research in arctic biology, geophysics, and atmospheric physics. The station also houses the administration of the Pleistocene Park, a local experimental wildlife preserve of 160 km2. Named after Russian explorer Jan Czerski, Chersky is sited on frozen Pleistocene carbon. The sediments here are made up of 50% ice, and 50% loess, which is a windblown sediment - the carbon content of loess deposits is five times that of a rainforest floor. During each annual melt between 2 and 5% of the stored carbon in the loess deposits is lost. Far Eastern Federal University is planning to open an Arctic campus at the research station. “At the station, students and young scientists will study permafrost melting; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chersky Range
The Chersky Range (, ) is a chain of mountains in northeastern Siberia between the Yana River, Yana and Indigirka River, Indigirka Rivers. Administratively, the area of the range belongs to the Sakha Republic, although a small section in the east is within Magadan Oblast. The highest peak in the range is the -tall Peak Pobeda (Chersky Range), Peak Pobeda, part of the Ulakhan-Chistay Range. The range also includes important places of traditional Yakut culture, such as Ynnakh Mountain ''(Mat'-Gora)'' and kigilyakh rock formations. The Moma Natural Park is a protected area located in the southern zone of the range. History At some time between 1633 and 1642, Poznik Ivanov ascended a tributary of the lower Lena (river), Lena, crossed the Verkhoyansk Range to the upper Yana, and then crossed the Chersky Range to the Indigirka. The range was sighted in 1926 by Sergei Obruchev (Vladimir Obruchev's son) and named by the Russian Geographical Society after the Polish explorer and geogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chersky Range (Transbaikalia)
The Chersky Range () is a mountain range in the Transbaikal Region (Zabaykalsky Krai) of Siberia, Russia. The range rises east of the city of Chita. It is named after explorer Jan Czerski and was formerly known as "Alentuy Range". Geography The Chersky Range is part of the South Siberian System. It rises in the central part of the Transbaikal region of Russia, stretching in a northeast/southwest direction for roughly between the left bank of the Chilka River and the valley of the Delingde River —a right tributary of the Vitim River of the Lena River basin. The Ingoda River breaks through the ridge in its central part, along the valley through which a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the range. The relief of the range is characterized by smooth slopes. River Karenga, another tributary of the Vitim, separates the Chersky Range from the Yablonoi Mountains, which run roughly parallel to it. The highest point of the range is high Golets Chingikhan (Голец ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Chersky
Mount Chersky () is a mountain in the Baikal Range, Russian Federation. This peak is named after Lithuanian explorer Jan Czerski (1845 - 1892, ''Ivan Chersky'' transcribed from Russian), who greatly contributed to the study of Lake Baikal.Природа Байкала - гора Черского Geography This high mountain is the highest point of the , part of the of ranges. It is an |
