The Kisilyakh Range (; ) is a mountain range in the

Sakha Republic Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia, and the largest federal subject of Russia by area. It is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million ...

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, Russia.Khrebet Kisilyakh - Geonames
/ref> The nearest city is

Batagay Batagay (; , ''Baatağay'') is an types of inhabited localities in Russia, urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Verkhoyansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Yana River. As of the Russian ...

, and the nearest airport Batagay Airport. The mountains are topped by

kigilyakh Kigilyakh or kisiliyakh (; , plural ''kihilēxlere'') are pillar-like natural rock formations looking like tall monoliths standing more or less isolated. Usually they are composed of granite or sandstone shaped as a result of cryogenic weathe ...

rock formation A rock formation is an isolated, scenic, or spectacular surface rock (geology), rock outcrop. Rock formations are usually the result of weathering and erosion sculpting the existing rock. The term ''rock Geological formation, formation ...

s. Some of the finest kigilyakhs in Yakutia are located in this range, the tallest among them reaching a height of .Types of weathering
/ref> ''Kisilyakh'' means "Mountain having a man" or "Mountain married" in the

Yakut language The Yakut language ( ), also known as the Sakha language ( ) or Yakutian, is a Siberian Turkic language spoken by around 450,000 native speakers—primarily by ethnic Yakuts. It is one of the official languages of the Sakha Republic, a republic ...

.''ЛАНДШАФТЫ КАК ОТРАЖЕНИЕ ТОПОНИМОВ ЯКУТИИ'' (Landscapes as a Reflection of the Toponyms of Yakutia)
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Geography

The Kisilyakh Range rises at the northeastern end of the

Chersky Range The Chersky Range (, ) is a chain of mountains in northeastern Siberia between the Yana River, Yana and Indigirka River, Indigirka Rivers. Administratively, the area of the range belongs to the Sakha Republic, although a small section in the eas ...

, in the Sakha region. The mountains are of middle height and the range is one of the smallest of the system. It stretches in a roughly WNW/ESE direction for about . The highest peak is high. The range consists of two ridges divided into an eastern and western part by a cleft.Bekman Igor Nikolaevich, ''Verkhoyansk Saga'' (in Russian)
/ref> The Khadaranya and the Ymiysky ranges, other northern subranges of the Chersky Mountains, rise further to the east, beyond the Nenneli, a tributary of the Oldzho river. The Kurundya Range rises to the east and southeast. The

Adycha The Adycha (; ) is a river in the Republic of Sakha in Russia. It is a right hand tributary of the Yana, and is long, with a drainage basin of . At the end of the Soviet period, a big dam with a hydroelectric station was planned to be built on ...

River flows across the range in its western part and the Tuostakh, one of its main tributaries, to the south.

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sentstory.ru / Yakutia, KisilyakhLandscapes as a reflection of the toponyms of Yakutia
Mountain ranges of the Sakha Republic Chersky Range Tourist attractions in the Sakha Republic sah:Киһилээх

Geography

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