Ust-Vilyuy Range

The Ust-Vilyuy Range (Russian: Хребет Усть-Вилюйский, Yakut: Уус Бүлүү) is a range of mountains in North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation. The area of the range is largely uninhabited, there are only some abandoned villages.[2]

Ust-Vilyuy Range
Усть-Вилюйский / Уус Бүлүү
View of the western slopes of the range rising above the waters of the Lena.
Highest point
PeakUnnamed
Elevation998 m (3,274 ft) [1]
Coordinates64°35′N 126°30′E 
Dimensions
Length65 km (40 mi) NW/SE
Width17 km (11 mi) NE/SW
Geography
Ust-Vilyuy Range
Location in the Far Eastern Federal District, Russia
LocationSakha, Russian Far East
Parent rangeVerkhoyansk Range
Geology
OrogenyAlpine orogeny

Geography

The Ust-Vilyuy Range is a subrange of the Verkhoyansk Range, part of the East Siberian System of mountains. It rises in the southwestern side of the Verkhoyansk Range, above the eastern bank of the Lena River, opposite the mouth of the Vilyuy River in the Lena's western bank, at the edge of the Central Yakutian Lowland. The highest point of the range is an unnamed peak reaching 998 metres (3,274 ft). According to other sources it is 813 metres (2,667 ft) high.[3]

The range runs parallel to the Kuturgin Range, a higher mountain chain that rises to the northeast, beyond which stretches the Bygyn Range. The northwestern end of the Chochum Range, which extends further southeastwards, rises off the eastern end of the Ust-Vilyuy Range.[4][5]

Flora and fauna

The slopes of the mountains are smooth and are covered with larch taiga. Among the animals found in the region are elk, sable, muskrat, wild reindeer, brown bear, wolverine, black grouse, Western capercaillie, white-tailed eagle, hazel grouse, snow sheep, golden eagle, peregrine falcon, black-capped marmot, brent goose and whooper swan. 999,221 hectares (2,469,130 acres) of the range are a protected area.[2]

See also

References
  1. Аркадий Андреев, Горы Якутии, p. 20 (Mountains of Yakutia)
  2. Усть-Вилюйский - ООПТ России
  3. Operational Navigation Chart C-6, 3rd edition
  4. Google Earth
  5. Хребет Усть-Вилюйский - Wikimapia
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