The Shchuchy Range (), is a range of mountains in

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. Administratively the range is part of the

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. The village of Markovo is located about to the SSE of the range near the eastern side of its southern end.

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Geography

The Shchuchy Range extends for roughly in a NNE/SSW direction from the southeastern end of the

Anadyr Plateau The Anadyr Highlands () are a mountainous area in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Geography The Anadyr Highlands are one of the two main mountain regions of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. They rise southwest of t ...

.Анадырское плоскогорье

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To the west the mountain range is limited by the course of the

Anadyr River The Anadyr (; Yukaghir: Онандырь; ) is a river in the far northeast of Siberia which flows into the Gulf of Anadyr of the Bering Sea and drains much of the interior of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Its basin corresponds to the Anadyrsky ...

, which flows first southwards, then makes a wide bend at the southern end of the range, and then flows roughly northeastwards in a wide valley. Numerous tributaries of the Anadyr have their source on both sides of the range. The highest point of the Shchuchy Range is high Gora Shchuchya (гора щучья).АНА́ДЫРСКОЕ ПЛОСКОГО́РЬЕ - Большая российская энциклопедия
/ref> To the northwest of the range rises the

Anyuy Range The Anyuy Mountains (; ''Anyuyskiy Khrebet''), also known as South Anyuy Range are a range of mountains in far north-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The area of the range is largely unin ...

, stretching in a roughly western direction, and to the west of the SW end of the range rises the Oloy Range of the

Kolyma Mountains The Kolyma Mountains or Kolyma Upland (), is a system of mountain ranges in northeastern Siberia, lying mostly within the Magadan Oblast, along the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk in the Kolyma region. It constitutes the watershed between the ba ...

. Чуванайские горы, National atlas of Russia
/ref> The Shchuchy Range is part of the

East Siberian System The East Siberian Mountains or East Siberian Highlands () are one of the largest mountain systems of the Russian Federation. They are located between the Central Yakutian Lowland and the Bering Strait in Northeast Siberia. The area of the East S ...

of mountains and is one of the subranges of the

Anadyr Highlands The Anadyr Highlands () are a mountainous area in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Geography The Anadyr Highlands are one of the two main mountain regions of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. They rise southwest of ...

.Oleg Leonidovič Kryžanovskij, ''A Checklist of the Ground-beetles of Russia and Adjacent Lands.'' p. 16

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External links

O.Yu.Glushkova, ''Late Pleistocene Glaciations in North-East Asia''
Mountain ranges of Russia Mountain ranges of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Landforms of Siberia

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