Dusse-Alin

{{Short description|Mountain range in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia}} {{refimprove|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox mountain range |name = Dusse-Alin |other_name = Дуссе-Алинь |image = Закат в горах Дуссе-Алинь.JPG |image_caption = View of some peaks of the range |country = Russia |country1 = |country2 = |region_type = Federal subject |region = Khabarovsk Krai |region1 = |borders_on = |border1 = |biome = |highest = Unnamed |elevation_m = 2175 |elevation_system = |elevation_note = |coordinates = {{coord|52|06|32|N|134|53|37|E|type:mountain}} |coordinates_note = |length_km = 150 |width_km = 40 |area_km2 = |length_orientation = S/N |width_orientation = E/W |length_note = |width_note = |area_note = |range_coordinates = {{coord|52|N|135|E|type:mountain_scale:300000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |range_coordinates_note = |geology = Metamorphic rock and granite |age = Permian |orogeny = Alpine orogeny |map = Russia Khabarovsk Krai |map_alt = |map_caption = Location in Khabarovsk Krai |map_relief = yes |easiest_route = From Beryozovy (Solnechny District) or Sofiysk (Verkhnebureinsky District) }}

The '''Dusse-Alin'''{{efn|{{langx|ru|Дуссе-Алинь}}, {{lang-mnc|m={{ManchuSibeUnicode|ᡩᡝᠣᠰᡝ ᠠᠯᡳᠨ}}|v=deose alin|a=deuse alin}}, {{langx|zh|斗色山}}<ref>Šuhede, Agūi. ''Achievement Diagram of Mukden''({{langx|zh|盛京事跡圖}}). 1776. Replica collected in the First Historical Archives of China</ref>}} is a mountain range in Khabarovsk Krai, in the Russian Far East.

Although it is named after this range, the Dusse-Alin Tunnel of the Baikal–Amur Mainline is located about {{convert|150|km|mi}} to the southwest.{{cn|date=August 2023}}

==History== The range was first roughly mapped by Russian explorer Alexander von Middendorf in 1844. In the wake of his studies, a large Russian military expedition led by Nikolai Khristoforovich Akhte continued the exploration of the area between 1849 and 1853. The German surveyor of the Russian service Ludwig Schwarz took part in the expedition as an astronomer. Together with topographers Stepan Vasilievich Krutiv and Alexei Argunov, as well as geologist Nikolay Gavrilovich Meglitsky, the Dusse-Alin range area was studied and topographically surveyed in detail. Based on their measurements, the first accurate map of the Dusse-Alin was drawn. In 1861 German botanist and geologist of the Russian service Fyodor Schmidt carried out thorough physiographic and geological research in the area of the range.<ref>[http://irkipedia.ru/content/agte_nikolay_hristoforovich Агте, Николай Христофорович - ИРКИПЕДИЯ]</ref>

In 1987 a {{convert|358444|ha}} section of the central and southern part of the range was declared a protected area (zapovednik), the Bureya Nature Reserve.<ref>[http://oopt.aari.ru/oopt/%D0%91%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9 PAs of Russia (Bureya Nature Reserve)]</ref>

==Geography== The Dusse-Alin and the Yam-Alin to the north of it are northern prolongations of the Bureya Range. The mountains display alpine relief and stretch for about {{convert|150|km|mi}}.<ref name="GSЕ">[http://bse.sci-lib.com/article035041.html Дуссе-Алинь] — Great Soviet Encyclopedia : (in 30 vols.) - Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.</ref> The main ridge extends from north to south and in the middle it curves westwards for roughly {{convert|40|km|mi}}, then it extends northwards again. The highest point of the range is an unnamed peak with a height of {{convert|2175|m|ft}} located roughly in the central part.<ref name="NAR">[http://mapn53.narod.ru/indexn53.html Topographic map N-53; M 1: 1,000,00]</ref>

To the northwest of the range the Ezop Range extends westwards. In the north it connects with the southern end of the Yam-Alin and the Bureya Range stretches roughly southwestwards at the southwestern end. To the east of the range flows the Amgun river.

===Hydrography=== The Dusse-Alin forms the watershed between the rivers of the Bureya and Selemdzha basins, and those of the Amgun basin.<ref name="GSЕ"/> Among the rivers having their sources in the slopes of the range are the left and right Bureya, that give origin to the Bureya river, as well as the Nilan — a left tributary of the Amgun, and several right tributaries of the Kerby, also a left tributary of the Amgun.<ref name=WR>[https://water-rf.ru/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%8B/1040/%D0%90%D0%BC%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%8C Water of Russia - Амгунь]</ref> {| |- valign="top" |thumb|330px|Lake Medvezhye in the Dusse-Alin. |}

==Flora == The lower slopes of the range are covered with spruce and larch forests up to altitudes of {{convert|1300|m|ft}}, followed by thickets of dwarf cedar and mountain tundra at higher elevations.<ref name="GSЕ"/>

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==External links== *[https://twitter.com/siberian_times/status/1416808546327359488?lang=en Lake Medvezhye (Bear Lake), Dusse Alin mountain range (2325m), Khabarovsk region in the Far East of Russia. Picture by photographer Andrey Grachev, July 2021]

Category:Mountain ranges of Khabarovsk Krai