Bystrinsky Golets (), also known as Barun-Shabartuy, is a mountain in the

Chikokon Range The Chikokon Range () is a mountain range in the Transbaikal Region (Zabaykalsky Krai) of Siberia, Russia. The range is named after the Chikokon River, a small left tributary of the Chikoy River. The Chikokon Range is within the limits of the ...

. Administratively it is part of

Zabaykalsky Krai Zabaykalsky Krai is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the Russian Far East. Its administrative center is Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, Chita. As of the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census, the population was ...

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. The mountain was officially declared a

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in 1988.Resolution of the Chita Oblast Executive Committee No. 593. 29 December 1988

Geography

This high mountain is the highest point of the Khentei-Daur Highlands, part of the

South Siberian System The South Siberian Mountains () are one of the largest mountain systems in North Asia. The total area of the system of mountain ranges is more than 1.5 million km². The South Siberian Mountains are located in the Siberian and Far Eastern Federal ...

of ranges. It is located in the western part of the highlands, just a little north of the border with

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.''Быстринский Голец'', Small Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia
/ref> the Bystrinsky Golets is a ‘’golets’’-type of mountain with a bald peak that rises just above the source of the

Chikoy River The Chikoy (; , ''Tsökh gol''; , ''Sükhe gol'') is a river in Zabaykalsky Krai and the Buryat Republic in Russia, which partially flows along the Russia-Mongolia border. It is a right tributary of the Selenga. The length of the Chikoy is . The ...

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The Bystrinsky Golets is part of the

Chikoy National Park Chikoy National Park () was officially created in 2014, on the mountain-steppe border region of south-central Siberia and Mongolia. It is in the Krasnochikoysky District of the Zabaykalsky ("Trans-Baikal") administrative region of Russia. This ...

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{{ZabaykalskyKrai-geo-stub Khentei-Daur Highlands

Geography

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