Upper Angara Range

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|name= Upper Angara Range
Верхнеангарский хребет

|photo=Verkhnyaya Angara.jpg

|photo_caption=View of the range above the Upper Angara River.

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|country=Russia

|region_type=Federal subject

|region=Buryatia / Irkutsk Oblast

|parent=North Baikal Highlands
South Siberian System

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|highest=Unnamed

|elevation_m=2641

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|length_orientation = NE-SW

|length_km=200

|width_km=40

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|geology=Crystalline rocks with granite intrusions

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|map=Russia Buryatia

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|map_caption= Location in Buryatia

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The Upper Angara Range ({{langx|ru|Верхнеангарский хребет}}) is a mountain range in Buryatia and Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, part of the Stanovoy Highlands.Google Earth

The Baikal–Amur Mainline passes at the foot of the southern side of the range.

Geography

The range stretches from southwest to northeast for about {{convert|200|km|mi}}, from the northern end of Lake Baikal to the sources of the Mamakan river, a left tributary of the Vitim. It forms the northern limit of the Upper Angara Depression, rising above the right bank of the Upper Angara River which flows into Lake Baikal. To the east rises the Delyun-Uran, the northernmost range of the Stanovoy Highlands. The main ridge is relatively narrow, with sharp peaks, cirques and glacial troughs.[http://bse.sci-lib.com/article004316.html Верхнеангарский хребет] — Great Soviet Encyclopedia: in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. The highest summit is a {{convert|2641|m|ft}} high unnamed ultra prominent peak.[https://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=13137 Peakbagger - Verkhne-Angarskiy Khrebet High Point, Russia]

=Hydrography=

The range forms a watershed that separates the Mama River basin to the north from the right tributaries of the Upper Angara to the south. The Kichera, one of the rivers flowing into Baikal, originates at the southwestern end of the ridge.

Rivers Left Mama and Right Mama, which form the Mama River, a tributary of the Vitim, as well as the Chaya, have their sources in the northern side of the range.{{cite web|url=https://maps.vlasenko.net/smtm1000/n-49.jpg|title=N-49 Chart (in Russian)|access-date=5 September 2021}}

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|File:Upper Angara Range ONC E-8.jpg

Flora

The slopes of the range are mainly covered with larch taiga, with mountain tundra and bare summits (golets) at higher elevations.

References

External links

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFwogla80iY Лето 2020 часть 1. Верхнеангарский хребет]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv-L-dh5nkA Верхне Ангарский хребет 2008]

Category:Mountain ranges of Russia

Category:Mountains of Buryatia

Category:Mountains of Irkutsk Oblast

Category:South Siberian Mountains