The Stanovoy Range (russian: Станово́й хребе́т, ''Stanovoy khrebet''; sah, Сир кура; ), is a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...

located in the Sakha Republic and

Amur Oblast Amur Oblast ( rus, Аму́рская о́бласть, r=Amurskaya oblast, p=ɐˈmurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers in the Russian Far East. The administrativ ...

, Far Eastern Federal District. It is also known as Sükebayatur and Sükhbaatar in Mongolian, or the Stanovoy Mountains, or Outer Khingan Range in English. The range was first studied and scientifically described by Russian researcher Alexander von Middendorff.

History

The range formed the border between Russia and China from 1689 ( Treaty of Nerchinsk) to 1858 ( Treaty of Aigun).

Etymology

The

Evenks The Evenks (also spelled Ewenki or Evenki based on their endonym )Autonym: (); russian: Эвенки (); (); formerly known as Tungus or Tunguz; mn, Хамниган () or Aiwenji () are a Tungusic people of North Asia. In Russia, the Ev ...

grouped the

Dzhugdzhur The Dzhugdzhur Mountains (russian: Джугджу́р) or Jugjur Mountains, meaning 'big bulge' in Evenki, are a mountain range along the western shores of the Sea of Okhotsk in the far east of Siberia. The mountains are quite deserted, the ...

, Stanovoy, and

Yablonoi The Yablonoi Mountains or Yablonovy Mountains ( rus, Яблоновый хребет, bua, Яабланай шэлэ нуруу, ; mn, Яблоны нуруу, ''Yablony nuruu'') are a mountain range, in Transbaikal (mainly in Zabaykalsky Kr ...

ranges under the name "Dzhugdzhur". In Evenk folklore this mountain system is known as the "backbone of the Earth".

Geography

The range runs roughly from west to east at the southern end of the Sakha Republic and the northern limit of

for roughly . It is bound by the Olyokma River in the west and the Uchur River in the east, which separates it from the Dzhugdzhur Range in Khabarovsk Krai to the east. The Aldan Highlands are located to the north of the eastern part of the range and the Olyokma-Chara Plateau to the northwest. The Yankan – Tukuringra – Soktakhan – Dzhagdy group of mountain ranges rise to the south and the

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to the southeast. The highest point of the range is Skalisty Golets, a ‘’golets’’-type mountain with a bald peak, at .Gora Skalistyy Golets - Peak Visor
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Hydrography

The Stanovoy Range separates the watershed of the

Arctic Ocean The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, ...

(basin of the Lena) from that of the

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...

(

Amur The Amur (russian: река́ Аму́р, ), or Heilong Jiang (, "Black Dragon River", ), is the world's tenth longest river, forming the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China ( Inner Manchuria). The Amur proper is long ...

basin). The range has many glaciers, which are among the main sources of the Lena. Rivers

Maya Maya may refer to: Civilizations * Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America ** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples ** Maya language, the languages of the Maya peoples * Maya (Ethiopia), a popu ...

and

Timpton The Timpton (russian: Тимптон; sah, Төмтөөн) is a river in Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It is a right tributary of the Aldan River of the Lena basin. It has a length of and a drainage basin area of . There are no settlemen ...

have their sources in the range. The

Zeya Zeya may refer to: People *Aung Zeya, full name of Alaungpaya, king of Burma in 1752–1760 * Zeya (Burmese actor) (1916–1996), Burmese actor and director *Zeya Thaw (born 1981), alternative spelling of the name of Zayar Thaw, Burmese politici ...

has its sources in the

Toko-Stanovik The Toko-Stanovik (russian: Токинский Становик, ''Tokinsky Stanovik'') is a range of mountains in the Russian Far East. Administratively it belongs partly to Amur Oblast, the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and Khabarovsk Krai of the ...

subrange located at the eastern end.Тимптон
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Great Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...

; in 35 vols. - Ch. ed.

A.M. Prokhorov Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Soviet-Russian physicist known ...

, 2004—2017.

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