The Kharaulakh Range is a mountain range in Yakutia located along the right bank of the Lena River , in the system of the Verkhoyansk Range . Parallel to the main ridge, the Tuora-Sis ridge extends to the west, and the Primorsky ridge to the east.
| Kharaulakh Range | |
|---|---|
 Tuora-Sis Range - the western spur of the Kharaulakh Range, directly adjacent to the Lena River | |
| Specifications | |
| Length | 350 km |
| Highest point | |
| Absolute height | 1429 m |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | Yakutia |
| Mountain system | Verkhoyansk Range |
 | Only a few individual mountain ranges, such as Byrranga on the Taimyr Peninsula, Syverma mountains, Verkhoyansk and Kharaulakh ranges, diversify the monotonous surface of the local lowlands. |  |
- wrote Prince P. A. Kropotkin [1] .
The length of the Kharaulakh Range is 350 km. The heights decrease from south to north from 1200 to 400 m, the maximum reaches 1429 m. The surface is strongly dissected by the valleys of the Lena tributaries . Mountain-tundra vegetation predominates. In the valleys of the western slope - larch woodlands. The ridge is composed of sandstones , mudstones , shales , and in some places effusive rocks .
A brilliant poetic description of the harsh beauties of the Kharaulakh Range was given in his poem “In the Mountains of Kharaulakh [2] ” by encyclopedic geographer P. L. Dravert :
There are few familiar plants
There are no fragrant colors here,
Gray plexus nodes
Squint gloomily at the light.
etc.
Sources
- Kharaulakh Range - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia . .
- Kharaulakh Range - article from the Brief Geographic Encyclopedia.
Notes
- ↑ The article “Siberia” (1902 Encyclopedia), based largely on personal research and discoveries by Yesaul Kropotkin.
- ↑ P. Dravert. Poems // The Polar Star Magazine. - 1979. - No. 5 . - S. 124-130 .