Ikat Range () is a
mountain range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...
in
Buryatia,
Russia
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. It runs in a parallel direction to the
Baikal Rift. The range is named after two small rivers sharing the name "Ikat" which have their sources in opposite slopes of the range one is a tributary of the Gargi (Barguzin basin) and the other a tributary of the Vitimkan (Vitim basin).
The name of the range originated in an
Evenki word. A section of the northwestern slopes of the range is part of the
Dzherginsky Nature Reserve
Dzherginsky Nature Reserve (russian: Джергинский заповедник) is a Russian ' zapovednik' (strict nature reserve), located about 100 km east of the northern section of Lake Baikal. It covers the source and upper reaches of ...
, a
protected area
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.
Dzherginsky Nature Reserve map
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Geography
The Ikat range is located in Central Buryatia, east of the Baikal Lake. It stretches for from southwest to northeast at the western limit of the Vitim Plateau. The width of the range is from and and its average elevation between and .[Икатский хребет](_blank)
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...
in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Soviet-Russian physicist known ...
- 3rd ed. - M, 1969-1978. The highest peak is an unnamed high summit located in the central part found during a 1980 aerial survey. Previously, high Dorong Peak, located at the headwaters of the Kotera, to the west of lake Dorong had been considered the highest point of the Ikat Range.Barguzin Range
Barguzin Range (russian: Баргузинский хребет) is a range in Buryatia, Russia along the northeastern shore of Baikal.
Its length is 280 km, height up to 2,840 m. It is mostly covered by larch taiga. The range bounds the Barg ...
in the west, while the Turka valley separates it from the Ulan-Burgas and the Selenga Highlands to the south. Beyond the northern end lies the valley of the Upper Angara River and the Southern Muya Range of the Stanovoy Highlands rises to the northeast. To the southwest the valley of the upper Ina River separates the Ikat range from the Golondin Range.
Flora
The lower slopes of the range are mainly covered with forest steppe
A forest steppe is a temperate-climate ecotone and habitat type composed of grassland interspersed with areas of woodland or forest.
Locations
Forest steppe primarily occurs in a belt of forest steppes across northern Eurasia from the easter ...
from the foot of the mountains to an elevation between and on the western slopes. At higher elevations there is larch
Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus ''Larix'', of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from tall, they are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in the north and high on mountains furt ...
taiga
Taiga (; rus, тайга́, p=tɐjˈɡa; relates to Mongolic and Turkic languages), generally referred to in North America as a boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces ...
up to about in the northern slopes. The highest parts of the range are topped by thickets of dwarf cedar and 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 ...
vegetation.
See also
* List of mountains and hills of Russia
*South Siberian Mountains
The South Siberian Mountains ( rus, Южно-Сибирские горы) are one of the largest mountain systems of the Russian Federation. The total area of the system of mountain ranges is more than 1.5 million km². The South Siberian Mountain ...
References
External links
Skiing across the Ikat and other ranges
(in Russian)
Mountain ranges of Russia
Landforms of Siberia
Landforms of Buryatia
South Siberian Mountains
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