The Tas-Kystabyt (, ) is a mountain range in the

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. It is also known as "хребе́т Са́рычева" —Sarychev Range, in honor of 19th century Russian cartographer Admiral

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Geography

The Tas-Kystabyt rises in the southeasternmost sector of the

Chersky Range The Chersky Range (, ) is a chain of mountains in northeastern Siberia between the Yana River, Yana and Indigirka River, Indigirka Rivers. Administratively, the area of the range belongs to the Sakha Republic, although a small section in the eas ...

System. The range is bound by the upper

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valley and its tributary, the Nera River. The highest mountain of the range is an unnamed high summit.''Wielka Encyklopedia Gór i Alpinizmu'', tom 2 Góry Azji, Katowice: Wydawnictwo STAPIS, 2005, . The range stretches in a roughly NNW/SSE direction for about . It separates the Oymyakon Plateau to the west from the

Nera Plateau The Nera Plateau (, ) is a mountain plateau in the southeastern Sakha Republic ( Oymyakon District) and the northwestern end of Magadan Oblast (Susumansky District), Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The Ust-Nera - Magadan tract of the R504 ...

to the northeast. To the east it is bound by the

Upper Kolyma Highlands The Upper Kolyma Highlands () is a highland area in Magadan Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The biggest town in the highlands is Susuman. There are large deposits of gold, tin and rare metals in the Upper Kolyma Highlands. The area ...

and to the south it overlaps with the Suntar Khayata Range.National Atlas of Russia
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Flora

The lower slopes of the range are covered by sparse

larch Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus ''Larix'', of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from tall, they are native to the cooler regions of the northern hemisphere, where they are found in lowland forests in the high la ...

taiga Taiga or tayga ( ; , ), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. The taiga, or boreal forest, is the world's largest land biome. In North A ...

. The higher elevations have only

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 ...

References

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External links

The Tas-Kystabyt Magmatic BeltA Contribution to the Liverwort Flora of the Upper Course of the Indigirka River
Mountain ranges of Magadan Oblast Chersky Range Mountain ranges of the Sakha Republic sah:Таас Кыстаабыт