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The Chersky Range (, ) is a chain of in northeastern Siberia between the Yana River and Indigirka River Rivers. Administratively, the area of the range belongs to the Sakha Republic, although a small section in the east is within Magadan Oblast. The highest peak in the range is the Peak Pobeda, part of the Ulakhan-Chistay Range. The range also includes important places of traditional Yakut culture, such as Ynnakh Mountain ( Mat'-Gora) and kigilyakh rock formations. Кисиляхи
The Moma Natural Park is a protected area located in the southern zone of the range.
Between the Yana and Indigirka rivers:
In some works, a few roughly-parallel ranges located off the main system to the northeast, such as the Kyun-Tas Range (highest point ), the Selennyakh Range (highest point highest point Saltag-Tas (), and the adjacent Moma Range (highest point ), with the Moma-Selennyakh Depression running along their western side, are included in the Chersky mountain system.Chersky Range // Great Russian Encyclopedia : in / Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov . - M, 2004—2017.
Other ranges of the system include the Irgichin Range, Inyalin Range, Volchan Range, Silen Range, and Polyarny Range, among others.Oleg Leonidovič Kryžanovskij, A Checklist of the Ground-beetles of Russia and Adjacent Lands. p. 15
Some of the higher ranges with alpine relief have glaciers. There are roughly 350 glaciers in the system, with a total area of . Черского хребет (в Якутской АССР и Магаданской обл.), Great Soviet Encyclopedia There are also small lakes in the swampy valleys of some rivers, as well as lakes of glacial lakes origin, such as Emanda and Tabanda.
The precise nature of the boundary between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates in the area of the Chersky Range is still not fully understood and is the subject of ongoing research. By the 1980s, the Chersky Range was considered mostly a zone of continental where the crust was spreading apart. However, the current view is that the Chersky Range is mostly an active suture zone, a continental convergent plate boundary, where compression is occurring as the two plates press against each other. There is thought to be a point in the Chersky Range where the extensional forces coming from the north change to the compressional forces noted throughout most of the range. The Chersky Range is also thought to include a geologic triple junction where the Ulakhan Fault intersects the suture zone. Whatever the exact nature of the regional tectonics, the Chersky Range is seismically active. It connects in the north with the landward extension of the Laptev Sea Rift, itself a continental extension of the Mid-Arctic Gakkel Ridge.
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