Alazeya Plateau

The Alazeya Plateau (Russian: Алазейское плоскогорье) is a mountain plateau in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The area is named after the Alazeya River, which has its source in the plateau.

Alazeya Plateau
Алазейское плоскогорье
Location in the Sakha Republic, Russia
Highest point
Elevation954 m (3,130 ft) 
Dimensions
Length300 km (190 mi)
Width200 km (120 mi)
Geography
CountryRussia
Federal subjectSakha Republic
Range coordinates67°38′N 147°50′E
Parent rangeEast Siberian System
Geology
Age of rockProterozoic and Devonian
Type of rockGneiss, Sedimentary rocks, granite and syenite

There are kigilyakhs in the Alazeya Plateau. The particularity of the kigilyakhs found in this location is that their lower part (corresponding to the legs) is thinner than the upper part.[1]

Geography

The Alazeya Plateau is located in eastern Sakha Republic, between the Indigirka, Kolyma, Alazeya and Ozhogina rivers.[2] The average height of the plateau surface is around 350 meters (1,150 ft). There are slightly higher tableland type elevations cutting across the plateau area; the highest point is a 954 metres (3,130 ft) high unnamed summit.[3]

The plateau is limited by the Yana-Indigirka Lowland, including the Aby Lowland, to the west, with rivers Yana and Indigirka, the Ozhogina to the south, and the Kolyma Lowland with the Kolyma to the east and northeast.[2] Besides the Alazeya, the Sededema River also has its source in the plateau.[3]

There are forests of larch in the lower areas and mountain tundra in the higher altitudes.[3]

References
  1. Murzin Yuri Andreyevich, Kigilyakhi of Yakutia
  2. Google Earth
  3. Алазейское плоскогорье, Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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