Namai | |
Other Name: | Намай |
Elevation M: | 1509 |
Location: | Irkutsk Oblast Russian Federation |
Map: | Russia Irkutsk Oblast#Russia |
Map Relief: | yes |
Range: | Lena-Angara Plateau, Central Siberian Plateau |
Coordinates: | 55.4996°N 106.7035°W |
Easiest Route: | from Zhigalovo |
Namai (ru|Намай) is a mountain in the Lena-Angara Plateau, Irkutsk Oblast, Russian Federation.[1]
This 1509m (4,951feet) high summit is the highest point of the Lena-Angara Plateau, part of the Central Siberian Plateau mountain system. It rises in the central/northeastern part of the plateau, above the right bank of the Kislaya River, west of the valley of the Khanda River, and northwest of Zhigalovo, in the central part of Irkutsk Oblast.[2]
Mountaintops in the area of the plateau are flat and elevations moderate. The Namai is marked as a 1509m (4,951feet) summit in the N-48 sheet of the Soviet Topographic Map.[3] This same mountain, however, is a 4852feet peak in the E-8 sheet of the Defense Mapping Agency Navigation charts,[4] and mentioned as a 1464m (4,803feet) high summit in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.[5]