The Kedon Range ( rus, Кедонский хребет) is a mountain range in

Magadan Oblast Magadan Oblast ( rus, Магаданская область, r=Magadanskaya oblast, p=məgɐˈdanskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Far East region of the country, and is admin ...

Far Eastern Federal District The Far Eastern Federal District (russian: Дальневосто́чный федера́льный о́круг, ''Dalnevostochny federalny okrug'') is the largest of the eight federal districts of Russia but the least populated, with a p ...

, Russia. Google Earth The Kedon Range is separated from the other ranges of the Highlands by tectonic basins. The mountains are not very high and are dissected by numerous river valleys, mainly tributaries of the

Kedon The Kedon (russian: Кедон) is a river in Magadan Oblast, Russia. It has a length of and a drainage basin of . The Kedon is a left tributary of the Omolon, of the Kolyma basin. The river flows steadily northwards across an uninhabited area of ...

. The area of the range is uninhabited.

History

Formerly there was a village in the southern area of the range where the Buksunda (Буксунда)

reindeer Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subsp ...

-breeding state farm operated.Светлой памяти совхоза "Буксунда". Фото
/ref> It was located at by the left bank of the long Tik river (Тик), a right tributary of the

. The village had 115 inhabitants in 1984 but lost its population at the turn of the millennium. Now it lies abandoned.

Geography

The Kedon Range rises in the central sector of the

Kolyma Highlands Kolyma (russian: Колыма́, ) is a region located in the Russian Far East. It is bounded to the north by the East Siberian Sea and the Arctic Ocean, and by the Sea of Okhotsk to the south. The region gets its name from the Kolyma River an ...

system. The main ridge runs in an arch to the west and southwest of the course of the

Omolon The Omolon (russian: Омолон; sah, Омолоон) is the principal tributary of the Kolyma in northeast Siberia. The length of the river is . The area of its basin is . The Omolon freezes up in October and stays under ice until late May t ...

. It stretches from the south to the northwest for over from the eastern end of the Molkaty Range in the south. The southern end is not clearly delimited, with the Kedon and Molkaty ranges merging with each other. To the west and northwest rises the

Kongin Range The Kongin Range ( rus, Конгинский хребет or ''Конгинские Горы'') is a mountain range in Magadan Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.Google Earth

. The highest mountain of the range is a high peak located in the southern part of the range.

Hydrography

The long

river originates in the Molkaty Range to the south and cuts across the central area of the Kedon Range on its way northwards. Further upstream of its mouth many short left tributaries of the Omolon, such as the long Pravaya Khulchan (Правый Хуличан) have their sources in the range.1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet D-9
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Flora

The slopes of the Kedon Range are bare and have a barren look. There are sparse

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 ...

forests in the valleys.

References

External links

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Kolyma - TourismEpithermal mineralization in the Kedon Paleozoic volcano-plutonic belt, Northeast Russia: Geochemical studies of Au–Ag mineralization
Mountain ranges of Magadan Oblast Kolyma Mountains