Koryak Mountains Explained

Koryak Mountains
Highest:	Ledyanaya
Elevation M:	2562
Parent:	East Siberian System
Map:	Russia Far Eastern Federal District
Location:	Chukotka Autonomous Okrug / Kamchatka Krai, Russian Far East
Coordinates:	62.5°N 172°W
Geology:	Ophiolites^[1]
Period:	Cenozoic, Mesozoic
Orogeny:	Alpine orogeny
Length Km:	880
Length Orientation:	NE/SW
Width Km:	270
Width Orientation:	NW/SE

The Koryak Mountains or Koryak Highlands are an area of mountain ranges in Far-Eastern Siberia, Russia, located in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and in Kamchatka Krai, with a small part in Magadan Oblast. The highest point in the system is the 2562adj=midNaNadj=mid Mount Ledyanaya, located in the Ukelayat Range,^[2] in the central part of the mountains.^[3]

Geography

The Koryak Mountains rise south of the Anadyr River, and northeast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Koryak Highlands are one of the largest glacial systems in the northern part of the Russian Far East. There are numerous glaciers and ice fields in some of the ranges, with a total surface of 303.5km2.^{[4] [5]}

Subranges

The system of the Koryak Mountains comprises a number of subranges,^[6] including:

• Vetvey Range, highest point 1640m (5,380feet)
• Vaeg Range, highest point 1226m (4,022feet)
• Pakhachin Range, highest point 1715m (5,627feet)
• Apuk Range
• Vatyna Range
• Penzhina Range, highest point 996m (3,268feet)
• Gizhigin Range, highest point 1059m (3,474feet)
• Ichigem Range, highest point 1465m (4,806feet)
• Pylgin Range, highest point 1355m (4,446feet)
• Olyutor Range, highest point 1568m (5,144feet)
• Neprokhodimy Range, highest point 1450m (4,760feet)
• Southern Mayn Range, highest point 1265m (4,150feet)
• Snegovoy Range, highest point 1712m (5,617feet)
• Pikas Range, highest point 1106m (3,629feet)
• Ukelayat Range, highest point 2562m (8,406feet)
• Komeutyuyam Range, highest point 1142m (3,747feet)
• Koyverelan Range, highest point 1077m (3,533feet)
• Rarytkin Range, at the northern end, close to Lake Krasnoye.
• Ukvushvuynen Range, highest point 1423m (4,669feet), the easternmost, close to Lake Pekulney.

Rivers

Rivers Main, Khatyrka, Velikaya and Ukelayat, as well as the Penzhina, with its Oklan and Belaya tributaries, are among the main watercourses of the Koryak Mountains.^[7]

See also

• Shirshov Ridge

Notes and References

1. Yldrim Dilek, Paul T. Robinson, Ophiolites in the Earth History, Geological Society, vol. 218, London, 2003
2. Rundqvist N. Caprice of the wandering finger: Koryak Highlands // Walking Wide. - Yekaterinburg: Quist, 2014 .-- 576 p.
3. "Koryak Highlands". Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vols.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978
4. Osipova G. B. Koryak Highlands (glacial system) glaciers and snowfields // Popular Science Encyclopedia “Water of Russia”. Archived on May 31, 2019
5. https://water-rf.ru/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%8B/1688/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5_(%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0) Water of Russia - Корякское нагорье (ледниковая система)
6. Oleg Leonidovič Kryžanovskij, A Checklist of the Ground-beetles of Russia and Adjacent Lands. p. 16
7. Web site: Топографска карта P-57_58 - Topographic USSR Chart (in Russian). 25 February 2022.