East Siberian Lowland

Coordinates: 72°N 149°E / 72°N 149°E / 72; 149
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East Siberian Lowland
Восточно-Сибирская низменность
Plain
Tundra in the Ust-Yansky District.
Tundra in the Ust-Yansky District.
East Siberian Lowland is located in Far Eastern Federal District
East Siberian Lowland
East Siberian Lowland (Far Eastern Federal District)
Coordinates: 72°N 149°E / 72°N 149°E / 72; 149
LocationYakutia, Russia
Part ofSiberia
Area
 • Total1,100,000 km2 (420,000 sq mi)
Elevation0 meters (0 ft) to 100 meters (330 ft) on the plain

The East Siberian Lowland (Russian: Восточно-Сибирская низменность, romanized: Vostochno-Sibirskaya nizmennost),[1] also known as Yana-Kolyma Lowland (Russian: Яно-Колымская низменность, romanized: Yano-Kolymskaya nizmennost),[2] is a vast plain in North-eastern Siberia, Russia.[3] The territory of the lowland is one of the Great Russian Regions. Administratively, it is a part of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).

Owing to the harshness of the climate the East Siberian Lowland is largely unpopulated. Inhabited centers are small and widely scattered. Andryushkino, Argakhtakh, Chokurdakh, Nizhneyansk, Olenegorsk, Russkoye Ustye, Srednekolymsk, and Zyryanka are among the few towns in the area.[4]

Geography

The East Siberian Lowland is an extensive region located in the far north-east of

Alazeya.[4][5] Most of the kigilyakhs of Yakutia are found in these elevated areas of the East Siberian Lowland.[6]

To the north the East Siberian Lowland is bound by shallow marginal seas of the

Medvezhy Islands, which form a continuum with the Eastern Siberian continental lowland region.[2] To the west, south and southwest the lowland is limited by the East Siberian Mountains, including the Verkhoyansk Range, the Chersky Range and their foothills, as well as by the Alazeya Plateau, and to the east by the western end of the ranges of the Anadyr and the Yukaghir Highlands.[3]

The lowlands are crossed by slowly

Khroma rivers. Except for the very large ones, most of the rivers of the lowland freeze to the bottom in the winter.[4]

Continuous permafrost is prevalent in the East Siberian Lowlands, and permafrost-related formations such as alas thermokarst depressions and baydzharakh mounds are common throughout the region.[7]

A church in Russkoye Ustye with the flat lowland tundra landscape in the background.
View of the shore of Belkovsky Island.

Geology

Geologically the lowland is mainly composed of sediments of marine origin. these date back to the time when the area was occupied by the

Siberian Craton. As centuries went by, most of the area became gradually filled with the alluvial deposits of modern rivers.[1]

Climate, flora and fauna

The climate prevailing in the lowland is subarctic and severe, characterized by long, very cold winters. The average temperature in January is −32 °C (−26 °F) by the seashore and −36 °C (−33 °F) inland. In July the average temperature reaches 0 °C (32 °F) by the seashore, but stays a chilly −12 °C (10 °F) in the inland zone.[dubious – discuss] Most of the lowland is covered by

Kolyma River basin there is a region where larch taiga can grow.[8][9]

There are wild

Bewick's swan and the spectacled eider.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Sea basins and land of the East Siberian Lowland
  2. ^ a b Oleg Leonidovič Kryžanovskij, A Checklist of the Ground-beetles of Russia and Adjacent Lands. p. 16
  3. ^
    ISBN 5-85120-217-3
  4. ^ a b c Google Earth
  5. ^ Topographic map - Chokurdakh
  6. ^ "Murzin Yuri Andreyevich, Kigilyakhi of Yakutia". Archived from the original on 2020-05-08. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
  7. ^ Permafrost dynamics in the 20th and 21st centuries along the East Siberian transect
  8. ^ a b Indigirka / Great Russian Encyclopedia in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov . - M, 2004—2017
  9. ^ Kolyma // Great Soviet Encyclopedia  : in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
  10. ^ Ivan Sivtsev , The Sundrun population of wild reindeer, The Ninth North American Caribou Workshop, Kuujjuaq, Québec, Canada.
  11. ^ Wetlands in Russia - Vol.4

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