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

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, Russia.Полоусный кряж (Polousny Range) /

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; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov. 2004—2017. This range is one of the areas of Yakutia where kigilyakhs are found.Murzin Yuri Andreyevich, ''Kigilyakhi of Yakutia''
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History

The area of the Polousny Range was first mapped by geographer and ethnologist Baron Gerhard von Maydell (1835–1894) during his pioneering research of East Siberia.Siberian History - МАЙДЕЛЬ Гергард Людвигович
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was discovered in 2013, at the feet of the Polousny Range in the

Chondon The Chondon (; ) is a river in Ust-Yansky District, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It is long, with a drainage basin of . The Chondon mammoth was discovered in 2013 in the Chondon basin, at the feet of the Polousny Range, 66 km south-west of ...

basin, 66 km south-west of the village of Tumat.Всё о мамонтах (All about Mammoths)
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Geography

The Polousny Range is part of the Momsko-Chersk Mountain Region (). It rises in the southern area of the

Yana-Indigirka Lowland The Yana-Indigirka Lowland (; ) is a large, low alluvial plain located in northern Siberia, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Administratively most of the territory of the lowland is part of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). There are inhabited ...

, north of the Aby Lowland in the Sakha region. It is made up of mountains of middle height and smooth slopes. It includes separate low mountain ranges with stretches of plain in between roughly aligned from east to west.Indigirka
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in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov . - M, 2004—2017. The main ridge stretches in a roughly east/ west direction from the headwaters of the Khroma River to the

Indigirka The Indigirka (; ) is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia between the Yana to the west and the Kolyma to the east. It is long. The area of its basin is . History The isolated village of Russkoye Ustye, located on the delta of the Indigi ...

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The highest peak is high. In the east, the Ulakhan-Sis, a prolongation of the range on the other side of the Indigirka River, stretches eastwards. To the west rises the Kyun-Tas and southwest of it the Selennyakh Range. Lakes Ozhogino and Suturuokha are located by the southern slopes of the eastern end of the range.Visit Yakutia - Suturuokha Lake
/ref> The sources of the Allaikha and the Byoryolyokh, two important tributaries of the Indigirka, are located north of the range. The lower slopes of the mountains have larch forests and forest tundra vegetation, while the higher altitudes are covered by

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Geology

In the context of the singularity of the geology of the Polousny Range, Russian

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M. Groswald commented:

References

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Mineralogy, Petro-, and Geochemistry of the Composite Dikes of the Takalkan Ore-Magmatic Cluster (Polousny Synclinorium of the Verkhoyansk-Kolyma Orogenic Area)
Mountain ranges of the Sakha Republic