Synnyr (russian: Сынныр) is a mountain massif in

Irkutsk Oblast Irkutsk Oblast (russian: Ирку́тская о́бласть, Irkutskaya oblast; bua, Эрхүү можо, Erkhüü mojo) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and ...

and Buryatia,

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. The range is part of the Baikal Rift Zone. Google Earth There is

potash Potash () includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water- soluble form.

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic ...

in the range at the Synnyr mine.Synnyr Routes
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Geography

The Synnyr stretches from SW to NE for roughly between the Akitkan Range and the

Upper Angara Range The Upper Angara Range (russian: Верхнеангарский хребет) is a mountain range in Buryatia and Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, part of the Stanovoy Highlands. Google Earth The Baikal–Amur Mainline passes at the foot of the southern ...

, west of the northwestern end of the

Stanovoy Highlands The Stanovoy Highlands ( rus, Станово́е наго́рье) or Stanovoy Uplands is a mountain range in the Transbaikal region of Siberia, Russia. Geography The Stanovoy Highlands are a mountainous area between the Patom Highlands to the n ...

, with the Patom Highlands to the north. It is limited by the valleys of the Chaya and Mama rivers. The

Chuya The Chuya (russian: Чуя; alt, Чуй, ''Çuy'') is a river in the Altai Republic in Russia, a right tributary of the Katun ( Ob's basin). The Chuya is long, and its drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing ...

, Kholodnaya, Tyya and Olokit have their sources in the range.Северо-Байкальское нагорье
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'' in 30 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 ...

. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.(in Russian) The heights of the range summits decrease from in the southwest to in the northeast. The highest peak is high Inyaptuk Golets, a ‘’golets’’-type of mountain with a bald peak.Outdoors - Synnyr
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Flora

The lower slopes of the range are mainly covered by

larch Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus ''Larix'', of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from tall, they are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in the north and high on mountains furt ...

taiga Taiga (; rus, тайга́, p=tɐjˈɡa; relates to Mongolic and Turkic languages), generally referred to in North America as a boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces ...

, with

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 ...

and bare rocky summits ''(golets)'' at higher elevations.

References

Mountain ranges of Russia Mountains of Irkutsk Oblast Mountains of Buryatia South Siberian Mountains {{IrkutskOblast-geo-stub pl:Synnyr ru:Сынныр

Geography

Flora

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