Salair Ridge

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The wages

The Salairrücken (Russian Салаирский кряж / Salairski krjasch, also briefly wages ) is one to over 600 m high mountain range in West Siberia.

The name probably comes from the Turkic - Mongol name of the river Sairair ( Сайраир ), which translates as " small, dry, stony river " means the first of the village Salairka ( the present city of wages ) and later transferred to the entire mountain was.

Geography

The Salairrücken extends over 300 km in an arc from southeast of Novosibirsk Novokuznetsk over the southwest to the northeast of Bijsk. The width of the plateau-like ridge is about 50 km. It rises on the southwest flank of relatively flat, while the north-eastern flank, the Tyrganschwelle ( уступ Тырган ), in many places falls steeply and the Kuznetsk Basin to the west. Rounded relief forms predominate, the peaks and ridges are flattened.

Most high at 400 to 500 m, is the highest peak of the mountain Salairrückens Kiwda ( Кивда ) with 621 m above sea level. NN in otherwise lower southwest part of the Salairrückens.

The wages have rivers Berd and Tschumysch, right tributary of the Ob, their origin.

The Salairrücken extends to the border of the Kemerovo Oblast, the Novosibirsk Oblast and Altai region.

Geology

The mountain is formed from crystallized limestone, sandstone, tuffs and granites, which were folded in the middle and late Cambrian and later raised. It deposits were discovered by the heavy metal ores, which are mined in the Town of wages, among others.

Flora

The largest part of the mountain is of mixed ( aspen and fir ) and deciduous forests ( aspen and birch ) covered. In the area of ​​steep northeast flank there are also larch and pine forests and steppe sections. Steppes predominate in the lower west side of the mountain.

Traffic

In the middle part of the Salairrücken of 1952 finished railway will Barnaul - Novokuznetsk crossed.