Golets Sokhondo () is a mountain in the
Khentei Range,
Khentei-Daur Highlands
The Khentei-Daur Highlands, also known as the Khentei-Chikoi Highlands, are a mountainous area in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia.
Owing to a number of factors such as tectonic faults, Fracture (geology), rock fissuring, and density of river networks, ...
. 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 ...
,
Russian Federation
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.
The Sokhondo Nature Reserve, a protected area surrounding the mountain, was named after this emblematic summit when it was established on 11 December 1973.
Geography
This high mountain is one of the highest points of the Khentei-Daur Highlands, part of the South Siberian System of ranges. It is located in the southwestern part of the highland area, not far north from the border with Mongolia.
[Google Earth]
Golets Sokhondo is a Golets (geography), ‘’golets’’-type of mountain with a bald peak belonging to a massif which includes a smaller summit, the high Little Sokhondo.
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See also
*List of mountains in Russia
References
External links
История - Сохондинский государственный природныйГОЛЕЦ СОХОНДО (Photographic exhibition)
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Mountains of Zabaykalsky Krai
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