The Taikan Range (; zh, 札格第嶺) is a

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. The closest inhabited place is

Chumikan Chumikan () is a rural locality (a '' selo'') and the administrative center of Tuguro-Chumikansky District of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, located at the mouth of the Uda River. Population: Geography and climate Chumikan lies on the southern side ...

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. The nearest airport is Chumikan Airport.

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There are deposits of Irnimite (blue jasper) in the northwestern spurs of the Taikan Range, in the river basins of the

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and its tributary the Ir. The mineral Taikanite is named after this mountain range.Taikanite Mineral Data - Mineralogy Database
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History

The range is mentioned in "The Classic of the Eastern Mountains", an ancient Chinese text, as Mount Pei-hao, located near the North Sea (

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). The present Chinese name is Cha-ko-ti Mountain Range. In the 17th century, at the time of the

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, the eastern section of the border between the Kivun and Taikan ranges was left undefined. The range was unexplored until the 1849-1852 Trans-Baikal expedition of

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Geography

The Taikan mountains stretch in a roughly SW/NE direction for about from the northern end of the

Yam-Alin The Yam-Alin () is a mountain range in Amur Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai, Russian Far East.Google Earth The range is part of the Ezop/Yam-Alin volcanic zone. History The range is located in a remote area and was unexplored until mid 19th century. ...

, reaching the shore of

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in the north. The range is bound to the northwest by the valley of the Uda river. The

Selemdzha Range The Selemdzha Range () is a range of mountains in the Russian Far East. Administratively it belongs partly to Amur Oblast and partly to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation. There is gold ore prospection in the area of the range. Geogra ...

rises to the west of the SW flank. The highest point is a high peak located at the southern end, often confused with the highest point of the neighboring Yam-Alin to the south. In the E-9 sheet of the

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Navigation charts the map shows the peak as an summit.1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet E-9
/ref> Rivers Torom and Tyl have their sources in the eastern side of the range. The Tyl Range (Тыльский хребет), a northeastern prolongation of the Taikan Range, stretches from south to north between both rivers. Lake

Bokon Lake Bokon () is a large freshwater lake in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It has an area of and a maximum depth of . There are no permanent settlements on the shores of the lake.Google Earth According to local folklore, the lake is haunted by a beau ...

is located below the slopes of the northwestern side of the range.Topographic map N-53; M 1: 1,000,00
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Tourism
Mountain ranges of Khabarovsk Krai ceb:Taykanskiy Khrebet

History

Geography

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