The Selennyakh Range (, ''Selennyakhsky Khrebet''; ) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the

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of the

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.''Selennyakhsky Khrebet'' /

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; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov. 2004–2017. The town of Deputatsky, capital of the

Ust-Yansky District Ust-Yansky District (; , ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located in the north of the republic in ...

, is located in the area of the range.

Geography

The Selennyakh Range extends from NNW to SSE for almost north of the northern end of the

Moma Range The Moma Range (, ''Momsky Khrebet''; ) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation.''Momsky Khrebet'' / Great Soviet Encyclopedia; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. ...

and east of the

Khadaranya Range The Khadaranya Range (; )Аркадий Андреев, ''Горы Якутии'' (Arkady Andreyev, ''Mountains of Yakutia'') p. 18 is a mountain range in the Verkhoyansk District, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. ...

. It is parallel to the latter and separated from it by the Moma-Selennyakh Depression, a wide

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, where the river Selennyakh flows and that continues southeastwards along the western side of the Moma Range. The

Aby Lowland The Aby Lowland (; ) is a low alluvial plain located in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Administratively most of the territory of the lowland is part of Aby District ''(Aby Ulus)''. Geography The lowland is crossed by ...

lies to the east and to the north 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 ...

. To the northeast it connects with the

Kyun-Tas Kyun-Tas (; ) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The Kyun-Tas is one of the mountain areas of Yakutia where there are kigilyakh rock formations. Geography The Kyun-Tas is located northeast of Depu ...

, at the western end of the

Polousny Range The Polousny Range (; ) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.Полоусный кряж (Polousny Range) / Great Soviet Encyclopedia; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov. 2004—2017. This range is one ...

, and to the northwest with the far north of the Chersky mountain system.

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In some works the Selennyakh Range is included as a part 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 ...

mountain system. The highest point of the Selennyakh Range is the

Saltag-Tas Saltag-Tas () is a mountain in the Ust-Yansky District, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. At it is the highest mountain in the Selennyakh Range, part of the wider Chersky Range (Momsko-Chersk Region), East Siberian System. See also *Geography o ...

(Салтага-Тас), a high

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ridge located in the southern part, nearly to the south of Deputatsky. Other subranges of the wider Selennyakh are the Nemkuchan Range in the northeast —a small ridge along the river of the same name facing the Kyun-Tas, the Esteriktyakh-Tas in the east, and the Tommot Massif and Andrey-Tas at the southern end.Аркадий Андреев, ''Горы Якутии'' (Mountains of Yakutia), p. 26 The main rivers of the range are the

Uyandina The Uyandina (; ) is a river in Sakha Republic, Yakutia, Russia, a tributary of the Indigirka. The length of the Uyandina is . The area of its drainage basin is . Course The river is formed by the confluence of the long Irgichyan originating in ...

and Selennyakh rivers, both left tributaries of 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 ...

, as well as 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 ...

, which flows northwards into the

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Flora

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prevails in the area of the range. The river valleys of the range have sparse

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forests, and above there is a narrow pre-tundra belt in which

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and

dwarf cedar ''Pinus sibirica'', or Siberian pine, in the family Pinaceae is a species of pine tree that occurs in Siberia from 58°E in the Ural Mountains east to 126°E in the Stanovoy Range in southern Sakha Republic, and from Igarka at 68°N in the lowe ...

predominate. In the higher altitudes there is

mountain tundra Alpine tundra is a type of natural region or biome that does not contain trees because it is at high elevation, with an associated harsh climate. As the latitude of a location approaches the poles, the threshold elevation for alpine tundra gets ...

References

External links

Regional populations and migration of moose in northern Yakutia, Russia.
Mountain ranges of the Sakha Republic {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub