Kalar Range

The Kalar Range (Russian: Каларский хребет, romanized: Kalarskiy khrebet) is a mountain range in Zabaykalsky Krai and the NW end of Amur Oblast, Russian Federation. The highest point of the range is 2,520 m (8,270 ft) high Skalisty Golets.[1][2][3]

Kalar Range
Каларский хребет
One of the right tributaries of the Kalar river
Highest point
PeakSkalisty Golets
Elevation2,520 m (8,270 ft)
Coordinates56°24′01″N 119°05′04″E
Dimensions
Length350 km (220 mi) WSW / ENE
Width70 km (43 mi)
Geography
Kalar Range is located in Zabaykalsky Krai
Kalar Range
Location in Zabaykalsky Krai
CountryRussia
Federal subjectZabaykalsky Krai / Amur Oblast
Range coordinates56°20′N 118°0′E
Parent rangeStanovoy Highlands
South Siberian System
Geology
Age of rockEarly Archean and Proterozoic
Type of rockGranite, metamorphic rock

The range is part of the Udokan Ore Region that includes the Kodar and Udokan ranges.[4]

History

Located in a desolate area, the Kalar Range was first described and roughly put on the map in 1857 by A.F. Usoltsev, Lieutenant of the Corps of Military Topographers of the Russian Imperial Army. Usoltsev sighted the range from the right bank of the Kalar River.[5]

Geography

The Kalar Range belongs to the Stanovoy Highlands. It stretches from WSW to ENE for roughly 350 km (220 mi) from the Vitim river valley to the Olyokma, both right tributaries of the Lena. To the north it borders the Chara depression —in the upper reaches of the Chara river, and the western spurs of the Udokan Range. To the south the range is bound by the valley of the Kalar river, a right tributary of the Vitim, which separates it from the Yankan Range. While peaks in the western part are generally flat-topped, the eastern end has a more marked alpine relief.[6]

Hydrography

A number of rivers have their sources in the range, including the Kalar river, with its right tributaries Katugin, Chukundu and Bugungda. Also the right tributaries of the Vitim river, Taksima and Kuanda, the left tributaries of the Olyokma, Tas-Yuryakh and Imangra, as well as several right tributaries of the Chara, also a left tributary of the Olyokma. River Nyukzha flows across the range in its eastern part.[2]

Flora

The higher slopes of the range are mainly covered with sparse coniferous forest, while below 1,100 m (3,600 ft) to 1,400 m (4,600 ft) mountain larch taiga predominates.[2]

See also

References
  1. M. Murzaev (ed.), USSR Survey of Northeastern China, p. 68
  2. "Каларский хребет" [Kalar Range] (in Russian). Энциклопедия Забайкалья. Retrieved 17 September 2021. (in Russian)
  3. Google Earth
  4. Udokan Ore Region / Great Soviet Encyclopedia: in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
  5. Obruchev V. A., Шварц на юго-востоке Сибири (Schwartz in the southeast of Siberia) (in Russian)
  6. "N-49 Chart (in Russian)". Retrieved 5 September 2021.
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