Oymyakon Plateau

The Oymyakon Plateau is located in the eastern Sakha Republic, in the upper course of the Indigirka River.[3] Together with the Yana Plateau to the north, and the Elgi Plateau to the northwest, it is part of the Yana—Oymyakon Highlands.[4] The plateau is limited by the Chersky Range to the east and by the Suntar-Khayata and the Tas-Kystabyt range of the Verkhoyansk Range to the west, connecting both mountain regions. The highest elevations are found in the mountain massifs rising above the plateau; the highest point is 1,891 metres (6,204 ft) high Dzhakai-Tasa.[5]

The elevation of the plateau surface has two clearly delimited zones and in the intermontane basins, frosty air is trapped in the winter creating inversions. This leads to an average nighttime temperature in January of about -50 °C in some areas.[5]

There are taiga type forests of larch up to 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) and mountain tundra in the higher elevations.[5]

• Oymyakon town

• Physiogeography of the Russian Far East
• Oymyakon Ring Structure in the North-Eastern Siberia