The Patom Highlands (Russian: Патомское нагорье ) are a mountainous area in Eastern Siberia , Russia. Administratively most of the territory of the uplands is part of Irkutsk Oblast , with a smaller section in northern Zabaykalsky Krai .
10-483: Patom may refer to: Patom Highlands , in East Siberia Patom crater Big Patom River Bolshoy Patom (village) Patom Theory Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Patom . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
20-521: A height of 1,200 meters (3,900 ft). Further up the mountaintops are covered with stony tundra . Nichatka Nichatka ( Russian : Ничатка ; Evenki : нича ) is a fresh water body in the Kalarsky District , Zabaykalsky Krai , Russia . The lake has an area of 37.3 km (14.4 sq mi). The name of the lake comes from the Evenki language word for "fish". Nichatka
30-553: Is extreme continental and cold. The average annual temperature is −5.5 °C (22.1 °F). In January 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
40-667: Is located to the northeast of the great Baikal . There are no settlements on the banks of the lake. The nearest airfield is Chara Airport . Nichatka is a long and narrow lake east of the gorges of the Vitim River , off the eastern limit of the Delyun-Uran Range . It stretches roughly from north to south at the southern end of the Patom Highlands and to the north of the Kodar Range . The Sen River ,
50-772: 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 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
60-681: The Vitim, left tributaries of the Chara, such as the Zhuya and Malba, and right tributaries of Lena, such as 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
70-506: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patom&oldid=1058538229 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Patom Highlands There are large deposits of gold in Bodaybo and Artyomovsky . Besides these two towns, other inhabited localities of
80-729: 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 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
90-474: The southeastern end, southeast of Lake Nichatka in Zabaykalsky Krai. Golets Longdor 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
100-623: 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 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
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