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Kigilyakh or kisiliyakh (; , plural киһилээхлэрэ kihilēxlere) are pillar-like natural looking like tall monoliths standing more or less isolated. Usually they are composed of granite or sandstone shaped as a result of frost weathering. Most kigilyakhs formed during the Early Cretaceous and are about 120 million years old. Types of weathering
The Yakut word "kisiliy" means "a place where there are people". Kisilyakh means "mountain having a man" or "mountain married". Ландшафты как отражение топонимов Якутии (Landscapes as a Reflection of the Toponyms of Yakutia) The term "kigilyakh" is a distorted form of the original Yakut "kisilyakh". Toponymy of Regional Cultural Landscapes – Verkhoyansk District, Sakha (Yakutia)
Outside of Yakutia, similar formations are found in the island of Popova-Chukchina and the Putorana Plateau, in Krasnoyarsk Krai. A. Grigoriev, Megaliths in the Arctic
In the Soviet Union on the Kigilyakh Peninsula at the western end of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island, a New Siberian Islands named after Vladimir Voronin, then in charge of the polar station on the island, was shown a large standing rock which had been heavily eroded and which gave its name to the peninsula.
Locations
Such stones are found in different places of Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, mainly in the East Siberian Lowland:
History
Ferdinand von Wrangel reported on the kigilyakhs on Chetyryokhstolbovoy, an island of the Medvezhyi Islands in the East Siberian Sea. He visited the island during his 1821-1823 expedition and named it after them ( Chetyryokhstolbovoy meaning "four pillars"). The kigilyakhs on Chetyryokhstolbovoy Island are about high.
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