The Dzhagdy Range () is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively it belongs partly to

Amur Oblast Amur Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya rivers in the Russian Far East. The oblast borders Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the south. The administrati ...

and partly to the

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of the

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Geography

The Dzhagdy is a range in northeastern Siberia, located in the northeast of Amur Oblast and the western side of Khabarovsk Krai. It is part of the Yankan - Tukuringra - Soktakhan - Dzhagdy group of mountain ranges (which also includes the

Turan Range The Turan Range () is a range of mountains in far Russian Far East, North-eastern Russia. Administratively it belongs partly to Amur Oblast and partly to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Federal subjects of Russia, Russian Federation. History The range ...

), being the easternmost of the group. The Upper Zeya Plain lies between this alignment of ranges and the

Stanovoy Range The Stanovoy Range (, ''Stanovoy khrebet''; ) is a mountain range located in the Sakha Republic and Amur Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District. It is also known as Sükebayatur and Sükhbaatar in Mongolian language, Mongolian, or the Stanovoy M ...

to the north.Dzhagdy //

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. - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. The Dzhagdy Range is limited by the

Zeya River The Zeya (; from indigenous Evenki word "djee" (blade); zh, 结雅; mnc, m= , Mölendroff: jingkiri bira) is a northern, left tributary of the Amur in Amur Oblast, Russia. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . The average flow of the rive ...

valley to the north and west, where Zeya town is located. The Tukuringra Range joins the Soktakhan and the Dzhagdy on the area of the

Zeya Dam The Zeya Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Zeya River by the town of Zeya, Russia, Zeya, Amur Oblast, Russia, north of the China, Chinese border. On average the Zeya Hydroelectricity, Hydroelectric Power Station generates 4.91 TWh of ele ...

. To the north flows the Uda River and in the south lies the Zeya-Bureya Lowland. To the southeast the

Selemdzha Range The Selemdzha Range () is a range of mountains in the Russian Far East. Administratively it belongs partly to Amur Oblast and partly to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation. There is gold ore prospection in the area of the range. Geogra ...

continues further eastwards.

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The highest point of the Dzhagdy is an unnamed peak reaching . The

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and Orlovka, tributaries of the

Selemdzha The Selemdzha () is a river in the Amur Region of Russia. It is the biggest, left tributary of the Zeya. The length of the river is 647 km. The area of its basin 68,600 km². Course The Selemdzha has its source where three mountain r ...

, have their sources in the range.

Flora and fauna

The slopes of the range are covered by conifer forests, part of the Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests ecoregion, together with the

Greater Khingan The Greater Khingan Range or Da Hinggan Range ( zh, s=大兴安岭, t=大興安嶺, p=Dà Xīng'ān Lǐng; IPA: ) is a volcanic mountain range in the Inner Mongolia region of Northeast China. It was originally called the Xianbei Mountains, whi ...

(Da Hinggan) Range of

Manchuria Manchuria is a historical region in northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day northeast China and parts of the modern-day Russian Far East south of the Uda (Khabarovsk Krai), Uda River and the Tukuringra-Dzhagdy Ranges. The exact ...

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. The

Zeya Nature Reserve Zeya Nature Reserve () (also Zeysky) is a Russian 'zapovednik' (strict nature reserve) located over the mountainous headwaters of the Zeya River, on the eastern end of the Tukuringra Range, where it joins the Dzhagdy, in the Amur Region of the R ...

is located at the eastern end of the Tukuringra Range, where it joins the Dzhagdy. The lower altitudes of the range provide a habitat for the

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.JSTOR - Emmett Reid Dunn, ''The Salamanders of the Family Hynobiidae''
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References

External links

Gorny Journal, 1905
Mountain ranges of Amur Oblast Mountain ranges of Khabarovsk Krai Mountain ranges of Russia {{KhabarovskKrai-geo-stub

Geography

Flora and fauna

See also

References

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