The Suor Uyata (; ) is a mountain range in the

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Kigilyakhs,

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s that are an important element of the culture of the

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, are found in the Suor Uyata range. to the ESE of the eastern end of the range, on the right bank of the

Alazeya River The Alazeya (; ) is a river in the northeastern part of Sakha Republic, Yakutia, Russia which flows into the Arctic between the basins of the larger Indigirka to the west and the Kolyma River, Kolyma to the east. Mount Kisilyakh-Tas is a notable k ...

, rises the high Kisilyakh-Tas, another important Kigilyakh site.Kigilyakhi of Yakutia
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History

The Suor Uyata was first mapped in the summer of 1870 by geographer and ethnologist Baron Gerhard von Maydell (1835–1894) during his pioneering research of East Siberia.

Geography

The Suor Uyata rises in the northwestern area of the Kolyma Lowland, only to the east of the eastern end of the Ulakhan-Sis Range. It is a smaller range than the latter, of which it can be considered an eastern prolongation. The main ridge stretches in a roughly WNW/ESE direction for about . Its highest summit is the high Salyr-Tas. To the north rises the Ulakhan-Tas (Улахан-Тас), a ridge that stretches roughly northwards for about , whose tallest peak is high. The Suor Uyata is surrounded on all sides by marshy areas with slow-flowing rivers and a multitude of lakes. The sources of several rivers are on the range, including the Bolshaya Khomus-Yuryakh, Maly Khomus-Yuryakh, Kumuruk-Yuryakh, Soldat and Bya, as well as some source area tributaries of the Sundrun River on the western side.

Flora and fauna

The area of the Suor Uyata is marked by

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. The climate is

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and severe and the range is covered in

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 area of the Suor Uyata is part of the migration corridor of the Sundrun

reindeer The reindeer or caribou (''Rangifer tarandus'') is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, taiga, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. It is the only re ...

population, which includes the adjoining Ulakhan-Tas, the Kondakov Plateau to the NW, and the forest tundra of the Rossokha River basin. The Suor Uyata / Ulakhan Tas mountain zone is a

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, a regional

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.Protected Areas in the Russian Arctic - WWF
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References

External links

Magmatic and ore formations of the Ulakhan-Tas
(in Russian) Mountain ranges of the Sakha Republic {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub