{{Short description|High plain in Far Eastern Russia}} {{Infobox mountain range | name=Elgi Plateau | other_name= Эльгинское плоскогорье<br> Эльгэ хаптал хайалаах сир | image= | image_caption= | country= Russia | subdivision2_type=Federal subject | subdivision2= Sakha | highest= Tuoydakh Peak | elevation_m= 1590 | coordinates= | length_km= | width_km= | area_km2=30000 | range_coordinates= {{coord|64|40|N|139|0|E|type:mountain|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | range_coordinates_ref= | parent=Yana-Oymyakon Highlands<br>East Siberian System | geology= Sandstone, siltstone<ref name="GSE-B"/> | age= Proterozoic | orogeny= | map= Russia Sakha Republic | map_caption= Location in Yakutia, Russia }}
The '''Elgi Plateau''' ({{langx|ru|Эльгинское плоскогорье}};<ref name="P-54-V,VI">Soviet General Topographic Maps P-54-V,VI</ref> {{langx|sah|Эльгэ хаптал хайалаах сир}}) is a plateau in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russian Federation.
The area is named after the Elgi River, a left tributary of the Indigirka. Formerly there was the Elginsky urban-type settlement by the left bank of river Elgi. It belonged to the Oymyakon District and was abolished in 2007.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.annews.ru/news/detail.php?ID=115873&print=Y |title=В Якутии ликвидируют 9 населённых пунктов |date=2007-08-07 |accessdate=2011-01-31 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130311235614/http://www.annews.ru/news/detail.php?ID=115873&print=Y |archivedate=2013-03-11 }}</ref>
==Geography== The Elgi Plateau covers the central Yana-Oymyakon Highlands, in the upper Elgi, Tompo and Delinya basins. The plateau is bound by the Verkhoyansk Range to the west and the Chersky Range to the northeast, the Yana Plateau to the northwest, the Suntar-Khayata Range to the southwest and the Oymyakon Plateau to the southeast.<ref name="GAoR">Geographical Atlas of Russia. - Federal Agency for Geodesy and Cartography , AST, 2010. - pp. 118-119</ref>
The average height of the plateau surface is between {{convert|1200|m|sp=us}} and {{convert|1400|m|sp=us}}. Dome-shaped peaks rise between the interfluves, where there are areas of small lakes and moorland. The highest point of the Elgi Plateau is {{convert|1590|m|ft}} high Tuoydakh Peak.<ref name="GЕ">Google Earth</ref>
==Flora== Forests of larch taiga generally cover the flat areas and lower slopes, and in the higher elevations Siberian pine, giving way to alpine tundra in the mountaintops. Willows and poplars may grow in the floodplains of the intermontane basins.<ref name="GSE-B">[http://bse.sci-lib.com/article126361.html Эльгинское плоскогорье], Great Soviet Encyclopedia</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.geobotanica.ru/PH_GEO/area.html Physiogeography of the Russian Far East]
Category:Mountain ranges of the Sakha Republic