The Alazeya Plateau () is a mountain
plateau
In geology and physical geography, a plateau (; ; : plateaus or plateaux), also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side. ...
in the
Sakha Republic
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia, and the largest federal subject of Russia by area. It is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million ...
,
Far Eastern Federal District
The Far Eastern Federal District ( rus, Дальневосточный федеральный округ, p=dəlʲnʲɪvɐˈstot͡ɕnɨj fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnɨj ˈokrʊk) is the largest and the least populated federal districts of Russia, federa ...
, Russia. The area is named after river
Alazeya, which has its source in the plateau.
There are
kigilyakhs in the Alazeya Plateau. The particularity of the kigilyakhs found in this location is that their lower part (corresponding to the legs) is thinner than the upper part.
Geography
The Alazeya Plateau is located in eastern Sakha Republic, between the Indigirka, Kolyma, Alazeya and Ozhogina rivers.
The average height of the plateau surface is around . There are slightly higher
tableland type elevations cutting across the plateau area; the highest point is a high unnamed summit.
The plateau is limited by the
Yana-Indigirka Lowland, including the
Aby Lowland, to the west, with rivers
Yana
Yana may refer to:
Locations
*Yana, Burma, a village in Hkamti Township in Hkamti District in the Sagaing Region of northwestern Burma
* Yana, India, a village in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India
* Yana, Nigeria, an administrative c ...
and
Indigirka
The Indigirka (; ) is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia between the Yana to the west and the Kolyma to the east. It is long. The area of its basin is .
History
The isolated village of Russkoye Ustye, located on the delta of the Indigi ...
, the
Ozhogina to the south, and the
Kolyma Lowland with the
Kolyma
Kolyma (, ) or Kolyma Krai () is a historical region in the Russian Far East that includes the basin of Kolyma River and the northern shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, as well as the Kolyma Mountains (the watershed of the two). It is bounded to ...
to the east and northeast.
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Besides the Alazeya, the
Sededema
The Sededema (; , ''Sededeme'') is a river in Sakha Republic, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Kolyma. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .
See also
*List of rivers of Russia
Russia can be divided into a European and an Asian part. ...
and the
Shangina also have their sources in the plateau.
There are forests of
larch
Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus ''Larix'', of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from tall, they are native to the cooler regions of the northern hemisphere, where they are found in lowland forests in the high la ...
in the lower areas and
mountain tundra
Alpine tundra is a type of natural region or biome that does not contain trees because it is at high elevation, with an associated harsh climate. As the latitude of a location approaches the poles, the threshold elevation for alpine tundra gets ...
in the higher altitudes.
[Алазейское плоскогорье, ]Great Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; , ''BSE'') is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Great Russian Enc ...
References
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External links
Physiogeography of the Russian Far EastWetlands in Russia - Vol.4
Plateaus of the Sakha Republic