Kolyma Mountains
{{Short description|Mountain range in Siberia}}
{{confusion|Upper Kolyma Highlands}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name=Kolyma Mountains
| other_name=Колымское нагорье
| photo=Kolyma Nature.jpg
| photo_caption= Mountains in the Tenkinsky District
| country= Russia
| subdivision1_type=Oblast/Okrug/Krai
| subdivision1= {{enum|Magadan|Chukotka|Kamchatka}}
| parent= East Siberian System
| highest=Gora Nevskaya
| elevation_m= 1828
| coordinates=
| length_km= 1300
| width_km=
| area_km2=
| range_coordinates= {{coord|64|N|159|E|type:mountain|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| range_coordinates_ref=
| geology= {{enum|Granite|Gneiss|Schist|Siltstone|Sandstone}}
| age= {{enum|Jurassic|Triassic|Permian|Proterozoic}}
| orogeny=
| map= Russia Far Eastern Federal District#Russia Magadan Oblast
| map_caption= Location in the Far Eastern Federal District, Russia
}}
The Kolyma Mountains or Kolyma Upland ({{langx|ru|Колымское нагорье|Kolymskoye Nagorye}}), is a system of mountain ranges in northeastern Siberia, lying mostly within the Magadan Oblast, along the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk in the Kolyma region.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Kolyma Upland |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |date=July 20, 1998 |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Kolyma-Upland}} It constitutes the watershed between the basins of Kolyma River and of the Sea of Okhotsk / Pacific Ocean.
The range's highest point is Mount Nevskaya (гора Невская) in the Omsukchan Range at {{convert|1828|m|sp=us}}.Sedov RV, Kolyma highland / Hvorov A. Yu . - Khabarovsk, 2003. - p. 418. - {{ISBN|5-901725-05-0}} .
Geography
The Kolyma Mountains stretch {{convert|1300|km|sp=us}} on a NW-SW alignment and consists of a series of plateaus and ridges punctuated by granite peaks that typically range between {{convert|1500|to|1800|m|sp=us}}.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Колымское нагорье |encyclopedia=Great Soviet Encyclopedia |year=1969–1978 |edition=3rd |url=http://bse.sci-lib.com/article063088.html |language=Russian |trans-title=Kolyma Highlands}}
To the west and southwest the Upper Kolyma Highlands are bound by the Seymchan-Buyunda Depression to the north and the Ola river basin to the south.{{huh|date=March 2024|reason=the sentence logic looks weird}} The Yukaghir Highlands, highest point Mount Chubukulakh, rise to the northwest, the Anadyr Highlands to the north and northeast and the Koryak Highlands to the east.{{cn|date=March 2024}}
=Subranges=
Besides the Omsukchan Range, the system of the Kolyma Mountains comprises a number of subranges.Oleg Leonidovič Kryžanovskij, A Checklist of the Ground-beetles of Russia and Adjacent Lands. p. 16[http://gull-research.org/schistisagus/images/pdf/WetlandsinRussia_Vol_4_English.pdf Wetlands in Russia - Vol.4] Most are located in Magadan Oblast:
- Korkodon Range, highest point {{convert|1760|m|ft}}
- Kongin Range, highest point {{convert|1561|m|ft}}
- Molkaty Range, highest point {{convert|1663|m|ft}}
- Kilgan Massif, highest point {{convert|1098|m|ft}}
- Maymandzhin Range, highest point {{convert|1809|m|ft}}
- Kedon Range, highest point {{convert|1639|m|ft}}
- Molongdin Range, highest point {{convert|1644|m|ft}} (the eastern end is in Kamchatka Krai)
The northernmost ranges are located in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
- Kuryin Range (курьинский кряж), highest point {{convert|1030|m|ft}}
- Oloy Range, highest point {{convert|1816|m|ft}}
- Ush-Urekchen, highest point {{convert|1685|m|ft}}
=Hydrography=
Many right tributaries of the Kolyma River have their sources in the northern and northwestern slopes of the Kolyma Highlands, including the Bakhapcha, Buyunda, Balygychan, Sugoy, Korkodon —with its tributary Bulun, and the Omolon —with its tributaries Molongda, Oloy, Kedon and Kegali.
The rivers originating in the southern and southeastern slopes of the mountain area flow into the Sea of Okhotsk and are shorter: Ola, Yama, Gizhiga, Paren and Penzhina.
File:Таватум2.jpg|Mountains in Severo-Evensky District
File:View from Dukat Mine - panoramio - Андрей Куполов.jpg|View of the Omsukchan Range from Dukat Mine
References
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External links
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- [http://naukarus.com/kamennye-gletchery-kolymskogo-nagorya Stone glaciers of the Kolyma Highlands] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924141357/http://naukarus.com/kamennye-gletchery-kolymskogo-nagorya |date=2021-09-24 }} {{in lang|ru}}
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