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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.''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, 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 and east of the Khadaranya Range. It is parallel to the latter and separated from it by the Moma-Selennyakh Depression, a wide intermontane basin, where the river Selennyakh flows and that continues southeastwards along the western side of the Moma Range. The Aby Lowland lies to the east and to the north the Yana-Indigirka Lowland. To the northeast it connects with the Kyun-Tas, at the western end of the Polousny Range, 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 (Салтага-Тас), a high ultra-prominent 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 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

alder Alders are trees of the genus ''Alnus'' in the birch family Betulaceae. The genus includes about 35 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, a few reaching a large size, distributed throughout the north temperate zone with a few species ex ...

and dwarf cedar 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 ...

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

Geography

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