The Shelag Range, Shelag Ridge (russian: Шелагский хребет) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Chukotka (russian: Чуко́тка), officially the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug,, ''Čukotkakèn avtonomnykèn okrug'', is the easternmost federal subject of Russia. It is an autonomous okrug situated in the Russian Far East, and shares a bo ...

of the

Russian Federation Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia North Asia or Northern Asia, also referred to as Siberia, is the northern region of Asia, which is defined in geographic ...

. The area of the range is desolate and uninhabited except for a few mining areas.mindat.org Shelagskiy Khrebet, Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Russia
/ref> The range was named after the Shelags, a little-known ethnic group that lived on the Arctic coast to the east of Cape Shelagsky.

Geography

The Shelag Range is a northwestern prolongation of the

Chukotka Mountains The Chukotka Mountains ( rus, Чукотское нагорье) or Chukotka Upland ''(Чукотская горная страна)'' is a mountainous area in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Google Earth This mountain chain runs in a roughly WNW/ESE direction for about , north of the Arctic Circle and parallel to the

East Siberian Sea The East Siberian Sea ( rus, Восто́чно-Сиби́рское мо́ре, r=Vostochno-Sibirskoye more) is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the Arctic Cape to the north, the coast of Siberia to the south, the New S ...

shore. Its western end is Cape Shelagsky and Chaun Bay and it is limited to the south by the Ichvuveyem Range, which rises by the

Ichvuveyem The Ichvuveyem (russian: Ичвувеем,

river, beyond which lie the

Chaun Lowlands The Chaun (russian: Чаун) is a stream in Far East Siberia. It flows roughly northwards, passing through the sparsely populated areas of the Siberian tundra. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . Course The Chaun originates in rivers flowi ...

. To the east the range is bound by the valley of the Keveyem (Кэвеем) river. The highest point is high Medvezhy Logovo peak.Gora Medvezh’ye Logovo: Russia
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Flora

The range has a barren look. The mountain slopes are covered with very little vegetation, mainly grasses, shrubs and " dwarf cedar", up to to . At higher elevations there is only rocky

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 ...

. The climate of the area is subarctic.

References

{{reflist Landforms of Siberia Chukotka Mountains ceb:Shelagskiy Khrebet pl:Szełagskij chriebiet