The Suor Uyata (; ) is a mountain ridge in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.Map - Лист R-56-XXI, XXII масштаб 1:200 000 The village of Andryushkino, a small inhabited locality of the Lower Kolyma District, is located to the SSE.Google Earth
Kigilyakhs, rock formations that are an important element of the culture of the Yakuts, are found in the Suor Uyata ridge.Кисиляхи хребта Суор-Уйята to the ESE of the eastern end of the range, on the right bank of the Alazeya River, rises the high Kisilyakh-Tas, another important Kigilyakh site.Kigilyakhi of YakutiaTopographic map
History The Suor Uyata was first mapped in the summer of 1870 by geographer and ethnologist Gerhard von Maydell (1835–1894) during his pioneering research of East Siberia.Siberian History - МАЙДЕЛЬ Гергард Людвигович
Geography The Suor Uyata rises in the northwestern area of the Kolyma Lowland, only 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 . Its highest summit is the high Salyr-Tas. To the north rises the Ulakhan-Tas (Улахан-Тас), a ridge that stretches roughly northwards for about , whose tallest peak is 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, Malaya Khomus-Yuryakh, Kumuruk-Yuryakh, Soldat and Byya (Быя), as well as some source area tributaries of the Sundrun River on the western side.
Flora and fauna 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.Ivan Sivtsev, The Sundrun population of wild reindeer, The Ninth North American Caribou Workshop, Kuujjuaq, Québec, Canada. The Suor Uyata / Ulakhan Tas mountain zone is a protected area, a regional nature reserve.Protected Areas in the Russian Arctic - WWF
References
External links Magmatic and ore formations of the Ulakhan-Tas (in Russian)