The Polousny Range (; ) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.Полоусный кряж (Polousny Range) / Great Soviet Encyclopedia; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov. 2004—2017.
This range is one of the areas of Yakutia where kigilyakhs are found.Murzin Yuri Andreyevich, Kigilyakhi of Yakutia
History The area of the Polousny Range was first mapped by geographer and ethnologist Baron Gerhard von Maydell (1835–1894) during his pioneering research of East Siberia.Siberian History - МАЙДЕЛЬ Гергард Людвигович
The Chondon mammoth was discovered in 2013, at the feet of the Polousny Range in the Chondon basin, 66 km south-west of the village of Tumat.Всё о мамонтах (All about Mammoths)
Geography The Polousny Range is part of the Momsko-Chersk Mountain Region (). It rises in the southern area of the Yana-Indigirka Lowland, north of the Aby Lowland in the Sakha region. It is made up of mountains of middle height and smooth slopes. It includes separate low mountain ranges with stretches of plain in between roughly aligned from east to west.Indigirka / Great Russian Encyclopedia in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov . - M, 2004—2017.
The main ridge stretches in a roughly east/ west direction from the headwaters of the Khroma River to the Indigirka for about .Google Earth The highest peak is high. In the east, the Ulakhan-Sis, a prolongation of the range on the other side of the Indigirka River, stretches eastwards. To the west rises the Kyun-Tas and southwest of it the Selennyakh Range. Lakes Ozhogino and Suturuokha are located by the southern slopes of the eastern end of the range.Visit Yakutia - Suturuokha Lake The sources of the Allaikha and the Byoryolyokh, two important tributaries of the Indigirka, are located north of the range.
The lower slopes of the mountains have larch forests and forest-tundra vegetation, while the higher altitudes are covered by mountain tundra.
Geology In the context of the singularity of the geology of the Polousny Range, Russian geomorphologist M. Groswald commented:
References
External links Mineralogy, Petro-, and Geochemistry of the Composite Dikes of the Takalkan Ore-Magmatic Cluster (Polousny Synclinorium of the Verkhoyansk-Kolyma Orogenic Area)