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21-756: [REDACTED] Look up kan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kan or KAN may refer to: Places [ edit ] Kan (river) , a tributary of the Yenisey in Russia Kan District of Iran Kan, Kyrgyzstan , a village in Batken Region Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport , Kano, Nigeria, IATA code Kannapolis (Amtrak station) , North Carolina, US, station code Kansas ,

42-459: A Lie group in mathematics Weights and measures [ edit ] A Japanese unit of mass ( 貫 ) Kan , a Korean unit of length Other uses [ edit ] Dated transliteration of Gan in Chinese contexts Kan language (disambiguation) , several languages Kananook railway station , Melbourne Club of Committed Non-Party Members (KAN), Czech Republic Variation of

63-633: A U.S. state People [ edit ] Kan (surname) , including a list of people with the surname One of the Bacabs of Mayan mythology Kan (musician) , Japanese singer-songwriter Kan Shimozawa (1892–1968), Japanese novelist Kan Otake (born 1983), Japanese professional baseball player Music [ edit ] "Kan" (song) , Israeli Eurovision song in 1991 KAN, UK folk supergroup with Brian Finnegan and Aidan O'Rourke In science and technology [ edit ] kan , PDP ligand, kanamycin A Iwasawa decomposition of

84-591: A right angle to the Western Sayan for 1,000 km (620 mi) in a northwest/southeast direction, from the Yenisei to the Angara Range . Some subranges of the northwest form a system of "White Mountains" (Белогорье) or " Belki ", such as Manskoye Belogorye, Kanskoye Belogorye, Kuturchinskoye Belogorye, as well as Agul Belki (Агульские Белки), with permanent snow on the peaks. In the central part, towards

105-1182: A roughly northeast/southwest direction between the Shapshal Range of the Eastern Altai in the west and the Abakan Range of the Kuznetsk Alatau in the east. From the Mongolian plateau the ascent is on the whole gentle, but from the plains of Siberia it is much steeper. The range includes a number of subsidiary ranges of an Alpine character, such as the Aradan , Borus , Oy , Kulumys , Mirsky , Kurtushibin , Uyuk , Sheshpir-Taiga , Ergak-Targak-Taiga , Kedran and Nazarovsky ranges. The most important peaks are Kyzlasov Peak (2,969 m (9,741 ft)), Aradansky Peak (2,456 m (8,058 ft)), Bedelig Golets (2,492 m (8,176 ft)), Samzhir (2,402 m (7,881 ft)), Borus (2,318 m (7,605 ft)) and Zvezdny Peak (2,265 m (7,431 ft)). Between

126-537: A snowline depression of 1500 m against the current height of the snowline. Under the condition of a comparable precipitation ratio there might result from this a glacial depression of the average annual temperature of 7.5 to 9 °C for the Last Ice Age against today. According to Sev’yan I. Vainshtein , Sayan reindeer herding, as historically practiced by the Evenks , is "the oldest form of reindeer herding and

147-554: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in Siberia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sayan Mountains The Sayan Mountains ( Mongolian : Соёны нуруу , Soyonii nuruu ; Old Turkic : 𐰚𐰇𐰏𐰢𐰤 , romanized:  Kögmen ) are a mountain range in southern Siberia spanning southeastern Russia ( Buryatia , Irkutsk Oblast , Krasnoyarsk Krai , Tuva and Khakassia ) and northern Mongolia . Before

168-575: Is a protected and isolated area, having been kept closed by the Soviet Union since 1944. At 92°E the Western Sayan system is pierced by the Ulug-Khem ( Russian : Улуг-Хем ) or Upper Yenisei River , and at 106°, at its eastern extremity, it terminates above the depression of the Selenga - Orkhon Valley . It stretches almost at a right angle to the Western Sayan for 650 km (400 mi) in

189-599: Is associated with the earliest domestication of the reindeer by the Samoyedic taiga population of the Sayan Mountains at the turn of the first millennium A.D." The Sayan region was apparently the origin of the economic and cultural complex of reindeer hunters-herdsmen that we now see among the various Evenki groups and the peoples of the Sayan area. The ancestors of modern Evenki groups inhabited areas adjacent to

210-503: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kan (river) The headwaters of the river rise in the Sayan Mountains and flow from there in a northerly direction through Kansk and then in a westerly direction through Zelenogorsk , entering Yenisei at Ust-Kan , 69 kilometres (43 mi) north-east of Krasnoyarsk. ПрфА This Krasnoyarsk Krai location article

231-838: The Mator and Kamas peoples being assimilated altogether. According to Juha Janhunen , and other linguists, the homeland of the Uralic languages is located in South-Central Siberia in the Sayan Mountains region. Meanwhile, Turkologist Peter Benjamin Golden locates the Proto-Turkic Urheimat in the southern taiga - steppe zone of the Sayan-Altay region. Alternatively, the Proto-Uralic homeland

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252-580: The Sicilian Defence in chess Kan (Hebrew: כאן , lit.   'Here'), the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation A string of Japanese mon coins See also [ edit ] Kann (disambiguation) Kaan (disambiguation) Kahn (German surname) Kane (disambiguation) Khan (disambiguation) Can (disambiguation) Kang (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

273-462: The Eastern Sayan, as well as the highest point of the whole Sayan system, 3,491 m (11,453 ft) high Mount Munku-Sardyk , is located in the range of the same name in this area. 2,939 m (9,642 ft) high Pik Tofalariya is the highest point of Irkutsk Oblast . The mountains of the Eastern Sayan characteristically display alpine relief forms. In general, rivers flowing down from

294-532: The Sayan Mountains, and it is highly likely that they took part in the process of reindeer domestication along with the Samoyedic population." The local indigenous groups that have retained their traditional lifestyle nowadays live almost exclusively in the area of the Eastern Sayan mountains. However, the local reindeer herding communities were greatly affected by russification and sovietization , with many Evenks losing their traditional lifestyle and groups like

315-481: The Snirsdaja valley, outlet glaciers flowed to the north to Lake Baikal. The Snirsdaja-valley-outlet glacier has calved, among other outlet glaciers, at c. 400 m asl into Lake Baikal (51°27’N/104°51’E). The glacial (Würm ice age = Last Glacial Period = MIS 2) glacier snowline (ELA) as altitude limit between glacier feeding area and ablation zone has run in these mountains between 1450 and 1250 m asl. This corresponds to

336-482: The Tunkinskaya Dolina valley, joining to a c. 30 km-wide parent glacier. Its glacier tongue that flowed down to the east, to Lake Baikal, came to an end at 500 m asl (51°48’28.98"N/103°0’29.86"E). The Khamar Daban mountains were covered by a large-scale ice cap filling up the valley relief. From its valley heads, e.g. the upper Slujanka valley (51°32’N/103°37’E), but also through parallel valleys like

357-437: The breach of the Yenisei and Lake Khövsgöl at 100° 30' E. the system bears also the name of Yerghik-Taiga. The flora is on the whole poor, although the higher regions carry good forests of larch , pine , juniper , birch , and alder , with rhododendrons and species of Berberis and Ribes . Lichens and mosses clothe many of the boulders that are scattered over the upper slopes. The Eastern Sayan stretches almost at

378-500: The ranges form gorges and there is an abundance of waterfalls in the area. In this area that currently shows only small cirque glaciers, at glacial times glaciers have flowed down from the 3492 m high Munku Sardyk massif situated west of Lake Baikal and from the 12.100 km extended completely glaciated granite-gneiss plateau (2300 m asl) of the East-Sayan mountains as well as the east-connected 2600 – 3110 m-high summits in

399-588: The rapid expansion of the Tsardom of Russia , the mountain range served as the border between Mongolian and Russian cultures and cultural influences. The Sayan Mountains' towering peaks and cool lakes southwest of Tuva give rise to the tributaries that merge to become one of Siberia's major rivers, the Yenisei River , which flows north over 3,400 kilometres (2000 mi) to the Arctic Ocean . This

420-591: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kan . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kan&oldid=1254675697 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Hidden categories: Articles containing Japanese-language text Articles containing Hebrew-language text Short description

441-834: The upper reaches of the Kazyr and Kizir rivers, several ridges, such as the Kryzhin Range form a cluster culminating in the 2,982 m (9,783 ft) high Grandiozny Peak , the highest point in Krasnoyarsk Krai. To the southeast rise the highest and most remote subranges, including the Bolshoy Sayan and Kropotkin Range , as well as " Goltsy " type of mountains, such as the Tunka Goltsy , Kitoy Goltsy , Botogolsky Goltsy , among others. The highest point of

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