The Fergana Range (; )[ geoview.info] is a mountain range of the Tian Shan in the Kyrgyz Republic.[ Great Soviet Encyclopedia, on-line edition, in Russian.] The length of the range is 206 km, and the average height is 3,600 m above sea level. The highest mountain is 4,893 m above sea level.
Geography
The Fergana Range stretches from north-west to south-east, separating the
Fergana Valley and the inner Tian Shan. The south-east section of the range is higher. It joins the
Torugart Range and the
Alaykuu Ridge via the Söök Pass (4024 m).
The South-west slope is long and low-sloped, the north-east - short and steep. Mountain ranges southwest are denoted by collective term:
Pamir-Alay system.
Geology
The Fergana Range is composed of
schist,
sandstone,
limestone, and other sedimentary metamorphic formations ruptured by intrusions of
gabbro and
diabase.
