The Stanovoy Range (, Stanovoy khrebet; ) is a mountain range located in the Sakha Republic and Amur Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District. It is also known as Sükebayatur and Sükhbaatar in Mongolian, or the Stanovoy Mountains or Outer Khingan Range in English. The range was first studied and scientifically described by Russian researcher Alexander von Middendorff.[ Stanovoy Range - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.]
History
The range formed the border between Russia and China from 1689 (Treaty of Nerchinsk) to 1858 (Treaty of Aigun).
Etymology
The
Evenks grouped the
Dzhugdzhur, Stanovoy, and
Yablonoi ranges under the name "Dzhugdzhur". In Evenk folklore this mountain system is known as the "backbone of the Earth".
[Melnikov A.V. Stanovoy Range, in Toponymic dictionary of the Amur region. - Blagoveshchensk: Khabarovsk book publishing house, 2009. - 232 p][Pospelov E.M. Туристу о географических названиях. M .: Profizdat, 1988]
Geography
The range runs roughly from west to east at the southern end of the
Sakha Republic and the northern limit of
Amur Oblast for roughly . It is bound by the
Olyokma River in the west (which separates it from the Stanovoy Highlands to the west) and the
Uchur River in the east (which separates it from the
Dzhugdzhur Range in
Khabarovsk Krai to the east).
[ The Mountains of Southern Siberia] The
Aldan Highlands are located to the north of the eastern part of the range and the Olyokma-Chara Plateau to the northwest.
[ Физическая география СССР - Ландшафтные области гор Южной Сибири - Байкальско-Становая область] The
Yankan Range –
Tukuringra –
Soktakhan –
Dzhagdy Range group of mountain ranges rise to the south and the
Maya Range to the southeast.
The highest point of the range is Skalisty Golets, a ‘’golets’’-type mountain with a bald peak, at .[ Gora Skalistyy Golets - Peak Visor]
Hydrography
The Stanovoy Range separates the watershed of the
Arctic Ocean (basin of the
Lena River) from that of the
Pacific Ocean (
Amur basin).
The range has many glaciers, which are among the main sources of the Lena. Rivers Maya and
Timpton have their sources in the range. The Zeya has its sources in the
Toko-Stanovik subrange located at the eastern end.
[ Тимптон / Great Soviet Encyclopedia; in 35 vols. - Ch. ed.A.M. Prokhorov, 2004—2017.]
See also
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List of mountains and hills of Russia
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