Key facts
- Peak
- Gora Nevskaya
- Elevation
- 1,828 m (5,997 ft)
- Length
- 1,300 km (810 mi)
- Country
- Russia
- Oblast okrug krai
- Magadan , Chukotka and Kamchatka
- Parent range
- East Siberian System
- Rock ages
- Jurassic , Triassic , Permian and Proterozoic
- Rock types
- Granite , Gneiss , Schist , Siltstone and Sandstone
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Encyclopedic overview
The Kolyma Mountains or Kolyma Upland (Russian: Колымское нагорье, romanized: Kolymskoye Nagorye), is a system of mountain ranges in northeastern Siberia, lying mostly within the Magadan Oblast, along the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk in the Kolyma region. It constitutes the watershed between the basins of Kolyma River and of the Sea of Okhotsk / Pacific Ocean.
The range's highest point is Mount Nevskaya (гора Невская) in the Omsukchan Range at 1,828 meters (5,997 ft).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kolyma Mountains” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.