Muisky Gigant (russian: Муйский Гигант) is a mountain in the
Southern Muya Range
The Southern Muya Range (russian: Южно-Муйский хребе́т, translit=Yuzhno-Muyskiy khrebet) is a mountain range in Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, part of the Stanovoy Highlands. The highest point of the range is 3,067 m high ...
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Stanovoy Highlands
The Stanovoy Highlands ( rus, Станово́е наго́рье) or Stanovoy Uplands is a mountain range in the Transbaikal region of Siberia, Russia.
Geography
The Stanovoy Highlands are a mountainous area between the Patom Highlands to the n ...
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Russia
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. Administratively it is located in
Buryatia,
Russian Federation
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Following four failed attempts to climb the peak, the first ascent of Muysky Gigant, took place on 8 July 1993, by a group of students of the
Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Engineers led by
alpinist and tour organizer
Alexander Kuzminykh.
Geography
Muisky Gigant is a massive-looking mountain, an
ultra-prominent peak
An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500.
The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or fro ...
, rising about southwest of
Taksimo, the administrative center of
Muysky District
Muysky District (russian: Му́йский райо́н; bua, Муяын аймаг, ''Muyayn aimag'') is an administrativeResolution #431 and municipalLaw #985-III district ( raion), one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia. It ...
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At this mountain is the highest peak of the Southern Muya Range.[ ] Muisky Gigant rises from a massif that constitutes a short spur of the main axis of the range. The Bambukoy River, a left tributary of the Bambuyka of the Vitim
Vitim (russian: Витим) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
Modern localities
*Vitim, Sakha Republic, an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Lensky District of the Sakha Republic
* Vitim, Republic of Buryatia, a ...
river basin, has its sources in the southeastern slopes of the mountain.
See also
*List of mountains and hills of Russia
This is a list of mountains and hills of Russia.
List by elevation
Over 5000 meters
4000 to 4999 meters
3000 to 3999 meters
2000 to 2999 meters
1000 to 1999 meters
Under 1000 metres
See also
*Highest points of Russian Federal s ...
*List of ultras of Northeast Asia
This is a list of all the ultra prominent peaks (with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) in Northeast Asia. There are 53 in total.
Baikal to Okhotsk
Eastern Siberia
Kamchatka
Kuril Islands
Korea and Manchuria
M ...
* Mount Shaman, the highest peak of the range on the Transbaikalia
Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia ( rus, Забайка́лье, r=Zabaykalye, p=zəbɐjˈkalʲjɪ), or Dauria (, ''Dauriya'') is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" (trans-) Lake Baikal in Far Eastern Russia.
The steppe and ...
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References
External links
Гигантомания (in Russian)
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Stanovoy Highlands
Mountains of Buryatia