The Alazeya Plateau () is a mountain plateau in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The area is named after river Alazeya, which has its source in the plateau.
There are in the Alazeya Plateau. The particularity of the kigilyakhs found in this location is that their lower part (corresponding to the legs) is thinner than the upper part.
The plateau is limited by the Yana-Indigirka Lowland, including the Aby Lowland, to the west, with rivers Yana River and Indigirka, the Ozhogina to the south, and the Kolyma Lowland with the Kolyma River to the east and northeast.Google Earth Besides the Alazeya, the Sededema and the Shangina also have their sources in the plateau.
There are forests of larch in the lower areas and mountain tundra in the higher altitudes.Алазейское плоскогорье, Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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