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12-755: Kigilyakhs , rock formations that are an important element of the culture of the Yakuts , are found in the Suor Uyata range. 40 kilometers (25 mi) to the ESE of the eastern end of the range, on the right bank of the Alazeya River , rises the 327 metres (1,073 ft) high Kisilyakh-Tas , another important Kigilyakh site. The Suor Uyata was first mapped in the summer of 1870 by geographer and ethnologist Baron Gerhard von Maydell (1835–1894) during his pioneering research of East Siberia. The Suor Uyata rises in

24-654: A man" or "mountain married". The term "kigilyakh" is a distorted form of the original Yakut "kisilyakh" . Such stones are found in different places of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia , mainly in the East Siberian Lowland : Outside of Yakutia, similar formations are found in the island of Popova-Chukchina and the Putorana Plateau , in Krasnoyarsk Krai . Ferdinand Wrangel reported on the kigilyakhs on Chetyryokhstolbovoy, an island of

36-645: A result of cryogenic weathering . Most kigilyakhs formed during the Cretaceous period and are about 120 million years old. These anthropomorphic rock pillars are an important feature in Yakut culture . Often they are slightly scattered, protruding from the surface of smooth mountains and giving the impression of a standing crowd of people. According to Yakut legends kigilyakhs originated in very ancient people. The Yakut word "kisiliy" means "a place where there are people". Kisilyakh means "mountain having

48-437: Is a protected area , a regional nature reserve . This Sakha Republic location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kigilyakh Kigilyakh or kisiliyakh (Russian: кигиляхи ; Yakut : киһилээх , meaning "stone person") are pillar-like natural rock formations looking like tall monoliths standing more or less isolated. Usually they are composed of granite or sandstone shaped as

60-404: Is deeply indented with two deep bays on both sides of a narrow 1.2 km wide isthmus that joins the northern from the southern part of the island. Ostrov Bol'shoy , a fairly large island with a diameter of 3 km, is located in the eastern bay. Kolosovykh has an average height of 13 m above sea level. and is separated from the mainland by a 2 km wide sound. Geologically Kolosovykh Island is part of

72-709: The Medvezhyi Islands in the East Siberian Sea . He visited the island during his 1821-1823 expedition and named it after them ( Chetyryokhstolbovoy meaning "four pillars"). The kigilyakhs on Chetyryokhstolbovoy Island are about 15 m (49 ft) high. In Soviet times on the Kigilyakh Peninsula at the western end of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island , one of the New Siberian Islands, Vladimir Voronin , then in charge of

84-534: The Minina Skerries a coastal archipelago forming a complex structure that includes the Plavnikovyye Islands further south. The highest point of the island is 85 m high Gora Kolosovykh Hill. The sea surrounding Kolosovykh Island is covered with fast ice in the winter and the climate is severe, with bitter and long winters. The waters off the shores are often obstructed by pack ice even in

96-596: The Polar station on the island, was shown a large standing rock which had been heavily eroded and which gave its name to the peninsula. Popova-Chukchina Kolosovykh Island ( Russian : остров Колосовых ; Ostrov Kolosovykh) is an island, in the Kara Sea off the coast of Siberia . Kolosovykh Island is located north of the Kolosovykh Peninsula , which is almost an island itself. The island's shore

108-752: The Sundrun River on the western side. The area of the Suor Uyata is marked by permafrost . The climate is subarctic and severe and the range is covered in mountain tundra . The area of the Suor Uyata is part of the migration corridor of the Sundrun reindeer population, which includes the adjoining Ulakhan-Tas, the Kondakov Plateau to the NW, and the forest tundra of the Rossokha River basin. The Suor Uyata / Ulakhan Tas mountain zone

120-623: The north rises the Ulakhan-Tas (Улахан-Тас), a ridge that stretches roughly northwards for about 40 kilometers (25 mi), whose tallest peak is 576 metres (1,890 ft) high. The Suor Uyata is surrounded on all sides by marshy areas with slow-flowing rivers and a multitude of lakes. The sources of several rivers are on the range, including the Bolshaya Khomus-Yuryakh , Maly Khomus-Yuryakh , Kumuruk-Yuryakh , Soldat and Bya , as well as some source area tributaries of

132-531: The northwestern area of the Kolyma Lowland , only 20 kilometers (12 mi) to the east of the eastern end of the Ulakhan-Sis Range . It is a smaller range than the latter, of which it can be considered an eastern prolongation. The main ridge stretches in a roughly WNW/ESE direction for about 60 kilometers (37 mi). Its highest summit is the 512 metres (1,680 ft) high Salyr-Tas . To

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144-939: The summer. This island belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of Russia and is part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve , the largest nature reserve of the Russian Federation . In 1937 the Arctic Institute of the USSR organized an expedition to investigate the Northern Sea Route in the Kara Sea. Relics of the ill-fated 1912-13 Vladimir Rusanov ’s expedition on ship Gerkules were found on Popova-Chukchina Island located west of Kolosovykh Island. This Krasnoyarsk Krai location article

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