{{short description|Mountain range in Sakha Republic, Russia}} {{about-distinguish-text|the mountain range in Yakutia|the Stanovoy Highlands in the Transbaikal area}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Use American English|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Stanovoy Range | other_name = Outer Khingan | image_map = Image:Location Stanovoy Range.PNG | map = Russia Far Eastern Federal District | map_caption = Location in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) | image = Larix gmelinii Neryungrinskiy Rayon 1.jpg | image_size = | image_caption = View of some larch woods in the range. | country = Russia | subdivision1_type = Federal subject | subdivision1 = Sakha Republic and Amur Oblast | length_km = 720 | length_orientation = SW/NE | width_km = 180 | width_orientation = NW/SE | range_coordinates = {{coord|56|20|N|126|00|E|type:mountain|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | parent = South Siberian Mountains | geology = {{hlist|Shale|gneiss|granite intrusions}} | orogeny = | highest = Skalisty Golets<ref>[https://geography-a.ru/menu-4-16/598-gory.html География знаний. - Горы]</ref> | highest_location = | elevation = {{convert|2412|m|ft|sp=us}} | coordinates = {{coord|55|51|N|130|43|E|region:RU|}} }}
The '''Stanovoy Range''' ({{langx|ru|Станово́й хребе́т}}, ''Stanovoy khrebet''; {{langx|sah|Сир кура}}) is a mountain range located in the Sakha Republic and Amur Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District. It is also known as '''Sükebayatur''' and '''Sükhbaatar''' in Mongolian, or the '''Stanovoy Mountains''' or '''Outer Khingan Range''' in English. The range was first studied and scientifically described by Russian researcher Alexander von Middendorff.<ref>[https://bse.sci-lib.com/article105797.html ''Stanovoy Range''] - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.</ref>
==History== The range formed the border between Russia and China from 1689 (Treaty of Nerchinsk) to 1858 (Treaty of Aigun).
==Etymology== The Evenks grouped the Dzhugdzhur, Stanovoy, and Yablonoi ranges under the name "Dzhugdzhur". In Evenk folklore this mountain system is known as the "backbone of the Earth".<ref>Melnikov A.V. ''Stanovoy Range'', in ''Toponymic dictionary of the Amur region.'' - Blagoveshchensk: Khabarovsk book publishing house, 2009. - 232 p</ref><ref>Pospelov E.M. ''Туристу о географических названиях''. M .: Profizdat, 1988</ref>
==Geography== The range runs roughly from west to east at the southern end of the Sakha Republic and the northern limit of Amur Oblast for roughly {{convert|700|km|mi|sp=us}}. It is bound by the Olyokma River in the west (which separates it from the Stanovoy Highlands to the west) and the Uchur River in the east (which separates it from the Dzhugdzhur Range in Khabarovsk Krai to the east).<ref>[http://www.rusnature.info/reg/14_6.htm The Mountains of Southern Siberia]</ref> The Aldan Highlands are located to the north of the eastern part of the range and the Olyokma-Chara Plateau to the northwest.<ref>[http://tapemark.narod.ru/geograf/4_2_7.html Физическая география СССР - Ландшафтные области гор Южной Сибири - Байкальско-Становая область]</ref> The Yankan – Tukuringra – Soktakhan – Dzhagdy group of mountain ranges rise to the south and the Maya Range to the southeast.
The highest point of the range is Skalisty Golets, a ‘’golets’’-type mountain with a bald peak, at {{convert|2412|m|ft|sp=us}}.<ref>[https://peakvisor.com/peak/gora-skalistyy-golets-kjeslt80.html Gora Skalistyy Golets - Peak Visor]</ref>
===Hydrography=== The Stanovoy Range separates the watershed of the Arctic Ocean (basin of the Lena) from that of the Pacific Ocean (Amur basin). The range has many glaciers, which are among the main sources of the Lena. Rivers Maya and Timpton have their sources in the range. The Zeya has its sources in the Toko-Stanovik subrange located at the eastern end.<ref name="ЭСБЕ">[https://bse.sci-lib.com/article110601.html Тимптон] / Great Soviet Encyclopedia; in 35 vols. - Ch. ed.A.M. Prokhorov, 2004—2017.</ref>
==See also== *List of mountains and hills of Russia
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Khingan | volume= 15 |last1= Kropotkin |first1= Peter Alexeivitch |author1-link= Peter Kropotkin| last2= Bealby |first2= John Thomas| page = 777 |short= 1}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304122101/http://www.peakware.com/areas.html?area=376 Stanovoi on Peakware]
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