The Ichigem Range () is a range of mountains in

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. Administratively most of the range falls within the Penzhinsky District of Kamchatka Krai, but the western end reaches into the Severo-Evensky District of Magadan Oblast.

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History

The area of the Ichigem Range was first mapped by geographer and ethnologist Baron Gerhard von Maydell (1835–1894) during his pioneering research of East Siberia.

Geography

The Ichigem Range is the northwesternmost range of the Koryak Highland system.Mark Nuttall ed. ''Encyclopedia of the Arctic,'' p. 1054 It stretches from WSW to ENE between the upper Penzhina valley to the north and the basin of the Oklan, a Penzhina right tributary, to the south. The

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rise at the western limit of the range and the waterlogged lower Penzhina valley marks its eastern end. The mountains of the Ichigem are of moderate altitude. They are covered with

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vegetation and have a barren look. The highest point of the range is an unnamed high peak, located in the central sector of the range. There are numerous vestiges of ancient

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in the Ichigem Range, but no modern glaciers. River Oklan has its sources in Mount Stolovaya of the western part of the Ichigem and flows roughly eastwards along the southern limits of the range, beyond which rises the Oklan Plateau (Окланское плато).Atlas of Russia
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Changes on the physical map of Northeast Asia
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