The Pay-Khoy RangeYushkinite from Dolgozhdannyi Waterfall, Pai-Khoi Range
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Ural Mountains The Ural Mountains ( ),; , ; , or simply the Urals, are a mountain range in Eurasia that runs north–south mostly through Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural (river), Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan.

. It lies within the

Nenets Autonomous Okrug The Nenets Autonomous Okrug (; ) also known as Nenetsia ( ) is a federal subject of Russia and an autonomous okrug of Arkhangelsk Oblast. Its administrative center is the town of Naryan-Mar. It has an area of and a population of 42,090 ...

Geography

The ridge is extended from northwest to southeast. It is located on the

Yugorsky Peninsula The Yugorsky Peninsula () is a large peninsula in Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is limited by the Khaypudyr Bay in the Pechora Sea to the west and by the Baydaratsk Bay in the Kara Sea to the north and east. Compared to the Barents Sea, w ...

, in the eastern part of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The ridge continues to

Vaygach Island Vaygach Island () is an island in the Arctic Sea between the Pechora Sea and the Kara Sea. Geography Vaygach Island is separated from the Yugorsky Peninsula in the mainland by the Yugorsky Strait and from Novaya Zemlya by the Kara Strait. ...

, thus separating the

Barents Sea The Barents Sea ( , also ; , ; ) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.World Wildlife Fund, 2008. It was known earlier among Russi ...

and the

Kara Sea The Kara Sea is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. Ultimately the Kara, Barents and Laptev Seas are all ...

. The highest point of Pay-Khoy is the mountain of Moreiz (). The range separates the

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...

s of the (west, Barents Sea) and the

Kara River The Kara () is a river draining to the Arctic Kara Sea in Russia. It flows through the Pai-Khoi Range in the Polar Ural region, and forms parts of the borders between the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Kom ...

(east, Kara Sea). The areas around Pay-Khoy do not have permanent population. The closest permanent settlements are

Amderma Amderma (, lit. ''a walrus rookery'' in Nenets languages, Nenets) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a settlement) in Zapolyarny District of Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the coast of Kara Sea, near the V ...

and

Ust-Kara, Nenets Autonomous Okrug Ust-Kara () is a village on the eastern border of Zapolyarny District, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It had a population of 574 as of 2010, a decrease from its population of 677 in 2002. Geography The village is located at the mouth of t ...

The range is located in the

tundra In physical geography, a tundra () is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons. There are three regions and associated types of tundra: #Arctic, Arctic, Alpine tundra, Alpine, and #Antarctic ...

, to the north of the tree line.

Geology

The Pay-Khoy range forms a curved orogen together with the

and the

Novaya Zemlya Novaya Zemlya (, also , ; , ; ), also spelled , is an archipelago in northern Russia. It is situated in the Arctic Ocean, in the extreme northeast of Europe, with Cape Flissingsky, on the northern island, considered the extreme points of Europe ...

archipelago. The Pay-Khoy and Novaya Zemlya are younger than the orogeny that formed the Ural mountains. They were formed during the Cimmerian Orogeny between the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic.

Bibliography

*Kovalskiy, M.A. ''Northern Urals and the Coastal Range Pai-Khoi.'' Volume 1. Research Expeditions of the Imperial Russian Geographic Society in 1847, 1848 and 1850.

References

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