Chersky Range

Location of Tscherskigebirges

The Pobeda, the highest peak of the range

The Tscherskigebirge (Russian Хребет Черского, scientific transliteration Chrebet Čerskogo, also Cerski Mountains ) is located in north-eastern Siberia (Russia, Asia). It was named after the Polish- Russian explorer Ivan Tscherski (Jan Czerski, 1845-1892 ) named. It is not to be confused with the Tscherskigebirge in the region of Transbaikalia.

Geography

The high mountain is about 700 km north-east from the Lena River, which flows through the valley Mitteljakutische in its middle and lower reaches, and from Yakutsk direction.

North and south of the Arctic Circle, lying in the center of Eastern Siberia, bordering the Tscherskigebirge as part of the East Siberian highlands in the north to the Laptev Sea. In the north- east is the Jana - Indigirka lowland ( western part of the East Siberian lowlands ) and in the east it borders on the Momagebirge. In the south east it falls gradually to the Sea of ​​Okhotsk from: the southern foothills of the Tscherskigebirges, which include the Balogotschankette with the 2586 m high spades Aborigen, extending just before Magadan. In the southwest of the mountain passes in the Verkhoyansk Mountains over the highlands of Oymyakon and to the northwest over the Jana Valley and beyond, located Kulargebirge.

Administratively part of the territory of the mountain almost exclusively for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia ); only the southern foothills reach the Magadan Oblast.

Expansion

The nearly 1,000 km long Tscherskigebirge runs approximately parallel to about 500 to 600 km further west in the Verkhoyansk Mountains; if you still count the southeastern foothills, ranging almost to the Sea of ​​Okhotsk up to it, it's even more than 1200 km long.

The highest mountain and largest rivers

The high mountains reached with the Pobeda ( about 180 km northeast of the city of Ust- Nera ) 3147 m height. It separates the catchment areas of the Lena and Kolyma, both of which flow into the Arctic Ocean. The mountain is traversed by the Indigirka.

Gold recovery

In Tscherskigebirge (more precisely, on both banks of the Kolyma ) was and is mined for gold - both " above ground " and " underground "; more about this can be found under gold mining on the Kolyma.