The Turan Range (russian: Хребет Тура̀на) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively it belongs partly to

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 ...

and partly to the Khabarovsk Krai of the

Russian Federation Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia North Asia or Northern Asia, also referred to as Siberia, is the northern region of Asia, which is defined in geographic ...

History

The range was formerly a remote area, first explored by

Peter Carl Ludwig Schwarz Peter Carl Ludwig Schwarz (Julian, O.S.: 23 May 1822, Danzig-Gdańsk – 17 September 1894; Gregorian, N.S.: 4 June 1822 - 29 September 1894,''Observatory'' (1894), p. 376. St. George's?; Buried: Tartu) (referred to mostly as Ludwig Schwar ...

during the East Siberian Expedition of 1855. It was mapped by Arseniy Usoltsev together with geological engineer Pyotr Gorlov in 1958. A

railway tunnel Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

of the

Baikal–Amur Mainline The Baikal–Amur Mainline (russian: Байкало-Амурская магистраль, , , ) is a broad-gauge railway line in Russia. Traversing Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East, the -long BAM runs about 610 to 770 km (380 to 4 ...

was built across the range.

Geography

The Turan is a range in northeastern Siberia, located in the southeastern end of Amur Oblast and the southwestern side of Khabarovsk Krai. It is part of the Yankan - Tukuringra - Soktakhan - Dzhagdy group of mountain ranges. Its ridges have a massive look, with rounded mountaintops.Турана
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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 30 vols.) / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. The range runs in a roughly NNE/SSW direction for about , and its northeastern part is deeply dissected by river valleys. To the north the mountain chain connects with the

Ezop Range The Ezop Range (russian: Хребет Эзоп) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively it belongs partly to Amur Oblast and partly to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation. The range is part of the Ezop / ...

(Езоп) and to the west and the southwest lies the Zeya-Bureya Lowland. The Bureya reservoir is located to the south. Google Earth The highest point of the Turan is the high Middle Nanaki ''(Средний Нанаки)'' located near the northeastern end of the range.National Atlas of Russia. - Cartography, 278-279 "Amur Oblast".
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Hydrography

The Turan Range divides the catchment area of the

Selemdzha River The Selemdzha () is a river in the Amur Region of Russia. It is the biggest, left tributary of the Zeya. The length of the river is 647 km. The area of its basin 68,600 km². Course The Selemdzha has its source where three mountain r ...

(a tributary of the

Zeya River The Zeya (russian: Зе́я; from indigenous Evenki word "djee" (blade); zh, 结雅; mnc, m= , Mölendroff: jingkiri bira) is a northern, left tributary of the Amur in Amur Oblast, Russia. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . The average ...

) to the west, and the

Bureya River The Bureya () is a south-flowing, left tributary of the Amur river in Russia. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . Its name comes from the Evenk word ''birija'', meaning river. Course The Bureya is formed from the junction of the Pravaya ( ...

(a tributary of the

Amur River 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 ...

) to the east. The Tashina River and the Selemdzha tributaries Ulma and Byssa, have their sources in the range.Water of Russia - Ulma
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Flora and fauna

The slopes of the range are covered by conifer forests, such as

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 ...

fir Firs (''Abies'') are a genus of 48–56 species of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Pinaceae. They are found on mountains throughout much of North and Central America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The genus is most closely related to ...

and

spruce A spruce is a tree of the genus ''Picea'' (), a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal ( taiga) regions of the Earth. ''Picea'' is the sole genus in the sub ...

up to altitudes ranging between and .

Dwarf Siberian pine ''Pinus pumila'', commonly known as the Siberian dwarf pine, dwarf Siberian pine, dwarf stone pine, Japanese stone pine, or creeping pine, is a tree in the family Pinaceae native to northeastern Asia and the Japanese isles. It shares the commo ...

shrub grows in the higher elevations. The range is part of the original habitat of the Amur cat.V. G. Heptner (ed.) ''Mammals of the Soviet Union,'' Volume 2 Part 2 Carnivora (Hyenas and Cats). p. 338

References

External links

Gorny Journal, 1905
Mountain ranges of Amur Oblast Mountain ranges of Khabarovsk Krai Mountain ranges of Russia {{KhabarovskKrai-geo-stub