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13-604: It is located in the Patom Highlands , as well as partly in the Stanovoy Highlands , in the northeastern zone of the oblast. The district is largely mountainous and its highest point is 2,988 metres (9,803 ft) high Pik Martena located in the Kodar Range . It borders with Yakutia (Sakha Republic) in the north and northeast, with Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai in the south and southeast, and with

26-491: Is a 1,771 metres (5,810 ft) high peak located at 58°25′14″N 116°46′12″E  /  58.42056°N 116.77000°E  / 58.42056; 116.77000 . The Patom crater is a cone of crushed limestone blocks located on the slopes of the Patom Highlands. The climate prevailing in the upland is extreme continental and cold. The average annual temperature is −5.5 °C (22.1 °F). In January

39-456: Is largely uninhabited, Svetly —a small goldmining place— and Perevoz villages are located by the river bank. The area of the Zhuya river was formerly renowned as part of the "Vitim Goldfields". The mines on the banks of the river were discovered and developed in the 19th century by Irkutsk gold miner K.P. Trapeznikov. There are still gold mining ventures in the Zhuya basin, especially in

52-463: Is one of the thirty-three in the oblast. The town of Bodaybo serves as its administrative center . As a municipal division , the district is incorporated as Bodaybinsky Municipal District . Patom Highlands The Patom Highlands (Russian: Патомское нагорье ) are a mountainous area in Eastern Siberia , Russia. Administratively most of the territory of the uplands

65-523: Is part of Irkutsk Oblast , with a smaller section in northern Zabaykalsky Krai . There are large deposits of gold in Bodaybo and Artyomovsky . Besides these two towns, other inhabited localities of the mountain region are: Mama , Perevoz , Kropotkin , Svetly and Bolshoy Patom , Bodaybinsky District . In 1912 there was a massacre of striking workers of the Lena Goldfields, located in

78-570: The Big Patom and Little Patom Rivers. The average height of the mountainous area is between 1,200 meters (3,900 ft) and 1,300 meters (4,300 ft). The highest point is a 1,924 metres (6,312 ft) high unnamed summit located at 57°39′8″N 117°47′19″E  /  57.65222°N 117.78861°E  / 57.65222; 117.78861 in the southeastern end, southeast of Lake Nichatka in Zabaykalsky Krai. Golets Longdor

91-555: The Mamsko-Chuysky District in the west. The Zhuya river cuts across the district and the Bolshoy Patom flows in a wide arch to the west and to the north. Besides Bodaybo, some of the settlements of the district are Aprilsk , Artyomovsky , Balakhninsky , Kropotkin , Mamakan , Svetly , Vasilievsky , Perevoz and Bolshoy Patom . Within the framework of administrative divisions , Bodaybinsky District

104-667: The Patom Highlands between the Lena and Vitim rivers. Strikers were protesting about harsh working conditions. Soldiers of the Imperial Russian Army intervened and fired upon protesters, causing hundreds of casualties. The incident provoked wide outrage across pre-revolutionary Russia when Alexander Kerensky reported it in the Duma . The name of the highlands was first proposed by Peter Kropotkin in 1868. The Patom Highlands are bound by rivers Lena , Vitim and Chara . To

117-709: The area of its tributary, the Vacha . The Zhuya is a left tributary of the Chara, of the Lena basin. Its source is in the northern slope of the Kropotkin Range . In its upper course the Zhuya flows roughly northwards and then northeastwards across the Patom Highlands , flowing across lake Tolendo. It turns in an eastward direction, meandering across a plain before joining the Chara near Ust-Zhuya , also known as Chara, an abolished settlement. The longest tributaries of

130-581: The highland area from the Olyokma-Chara Plateau . To the southeast the Patom Highlands connect with the Kodar Range of Transbaikalia . the river valleys cutting across the highlands are usually deep. Many rivers have their sources in the highlands, including some right tributaries of the Vitim, left tributaries of the Chara, such as the Zhuya and Malba, and right tributaries of Lena, such as

143-514: The mountaintops are covered with stony tundra . Zhuya The Zhuya ( Russian : Жуя ) is a river in Irkutsk Oblast , East Siberia, Russian Federation . It is the second largest tributary of the Chara river in terms of length and area of its basin. The river is 337 kilometres (209 mi) long and has a drainage basin of 22,600 square kilometres (8,700 sq mi). The area

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156-699: The north the valley of the Lena separates the highlands from the Lena Plateau and to the southwest the Vitim River, a right tributary of the Lena, separates it from the Stanovoy and North Baikal Highlands . To the south rises the Kropotkin Range and beyond it the valley of the Vitim. To the east flows the Chara River, a left tributary of the Olyokma River of the Lena basin, which separates

169-497: The temperature goes down to −31 °C (−24 °F) and in July the temperature reaches a maximum of 18 °C (64 °F). There are taiga forests of conifers, mostly larch , in the slopes of the mountains up to 900 meters (3,000 ft) to 1,100 meters (3,600 ft), often mixed with Siberian pine . At higher altitudes these give way to thickets of dwarf Siberian pine up to a height of 1,200 meters (3,900 ft). Further up

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