Golets (), plural Goltsy (), is a type of bald mountain summit of certain areas of

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. The term is part of the geographical name of several peaks in the region.

Description

''Golets'' protrude above the

treeline The tree line is the edge of a habitat at which trees are capable of growing and beyond which they are not. It is found at high elevations and high latitudes. Beyond the tree line, trees cannot tolerate the environmental conditions (usually low ...

and are usually round or blunt. They are barren, rocky or stony, and only rarely lichens or stunted small scrubs such as

Siberian pine ''Pinus sibirica'', or Siberian pine, in the family Pinaceae is a species of pine tree that occurs in Siberia from 58°E in the Ural Mountains east to 126°E in the Stanovoy Range in southern Sakha Republic, and from Igarka at 68°N in the l ...

, may grow on them. Bare rock slopes, kurums and cliffs are common. The term is usually found in the names of mountaintops in 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 ...

, especially in

Transbaikalia Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia ( rus, Забайка́лье, r=Zabaykal'ye, p=zəbɐjˈkalʲjɪ), or Dauria (, ''Dauriya'') is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" (trans-) Lake Baikal at the south side of the eastern Si ...

and the

Sayan Mountains The Sayan Mountains (, ; ) are a mountain range in southern Siberia spanning southeastern Russia (Buryatia, Irkutsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Tuva and Khakassia) and northern Mongolia. Before the rapid expansion of the Tsardom of Russia, the mou ...

. The zone below the golets is normally the highest of the altitudinal vegetation zones, above the

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 ...

of the alpine belt.Sizykh, A. (2016) ''Formation of an Ecotone at the Boundary of Forest and Mountain Tundra—Morskoy Ridge as an Example, Middle Part of Eastern Coast of Lake Baikal.'' Open Access Library Journal, 3, 1-4. This kind of mountains may consist in single high peaks connected by ridges or in continuous ridges with permanent snowcaps on their highest parts, although most "golets" are usually free of snow in the summer.A. A. Cherkassov, ''Notes of an East Siberian Hunter'', p. 55 Since they form part of the topmost elevation level, golets are frequently the highest points of South Siberian mountain ranges, such as in the Yablonoi Mountains, the Kropotkin Range, the Olyokma-Stanovik, the Chersky Range (Transbaikalia) and the

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, ...

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Examples

* Botogolsky Goltsy * Bystrinsky Golets *

Golets Kropotkin Golets Kropotkin () is a peak in the Olyokma-Stanovik Mountains. Administratively it is part of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russian Federation. The peak was named after Peter Kropotkin, who had explored the area in 1864. This emblematic summit was decla ...

* Golets Sokhondo * Golets-Torny Group * Inyaptuk Golets *

Kitoy Goltsy The Kitoy Goltsy () is a mountain range in Siberia, Russia, part of the Eastern Sayan Mountains. The range is about long. Its highest summit, ''Ospinsky Golets'', is high.

* Kontalaksky Golets *

Skalisty Golets Skalisty Golets () is the highest peak in the Kalar Range, Stanovoy Highlands, Russia. The Skalisty Golets is a ‘’golets’’-type of mountain with a bald peak. Administratively it is located in the Zabaykalsky Krai of the Russian Far East. ...

, Kalar Range * Skalisty Golets (Stanovoy Range) *

Tryokhgolovy Golets Tryokhgolovy Golets () is the highest peak in the Primorsky Range, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. Geography Tryokhgolovy Golets, meaning "Three-headed Golets" is a high ‘’golets’’ type of mountain with a bald summit. Some sources give a height ...

(Triple-head Golets) *

Tunka Goltsy The Tunka Goltsy () is a mountain range in Buryatia, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Geography Its length is 160 km, it is the easternmost part of the Eastern Sayan. Highest summit Strelnikov Peak (Algan Mundarga), 3157 m. Rivers: ...

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Tunkinskiye Goltsy
Mountain geomorphology Sayan Mountains South Siberian Mountains

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