(SANITIZED)TOPOGRAPHIC REPORT ON SELECTED AREAS OF SIBERIAN USSR(SANITIZED)

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• Publication Date: December 10, 1957
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~F rFORM 1]2--PART 1
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? - "`. Novaya ~Zemlya..'(-photo~:' ?? .- ~ - _
?~.Fig.. 6 - ~I~Iap 'of the.northeestern: coast of Severnyy Isl~arid~;-~.~~
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-' Fig~,.'..2' - ? The valley of ~Kari'?yonsk~e ;River ? Severnyy'_ Is ~~ '~~~
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Fig:.-5'~..- ?TYie. coast= near- y _~Island,:?Severr~ ~Island_;.:(pYioto: ~.'
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Fig:lO - Viaw? `of the. eastern, slope: of ~,Go `(Mountain) Ma-nsi=rier;;~~Yti?~ ~~ ?`
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Fig?.. 8' - . Lithol:ogic ~m$p of : Beluzn'ya ~ Fiorcl,':Ma~tochkin Shar Stra
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_ .and ~ednik~ Mansi with glacier .l8kes ~;~ dravring ),~ `
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The Yugral Glacier is located on the eastern slope ,of the.. main
watershed ridge of the Urals - (in Gora PJarodriaya ~?area)
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The.esrr, where the glacier is~found, presents a deep boQ~l
surrotiiuded 'by a tight ring of high ~-and steep peaks formed by dark
metamorphic-schists of the Proterozoic period._?The mouth of the
?.carr _opens into the IJaroda River ='~&?lley on the level of its bottom
(1, 00.0 m above sea level) . - _ -
The southern and northern walls of the carr are the highest
(about 500 m}, while the western wall is 200 to 250 m lower, and,
overlapping the carr of the opposite slope (where the source of
the Lomes'-`Tozh Stream is located}, forms a narrow and ~agged..~ ?
cresti.?
A em~t1111ake, dammed by chaotically agglomerated large bou~debs
lies at the mouth of the carr . { 5, p , ~ 163) _ ?? ? ~. ~~~
The-southeastern slope of the carr has steep rocky ledges,,sepa-.,,~
rated by cones of rock wasted _ t , f'~? ~_
`The,glacier has receded `considerably between 1930 and 19~47cf
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Mansi Glacier
1~18ng1 Glacier2 is located in a deep carr on the northeastern, slope.
?of +-Gora : Mansi~ner { 1, 775 m) . It occupies the rear, iii derpart, of ?
the carr, over ~=hieh the characteristic "spire" of Gora Mansi=ner,_
formed by dark metamorphic schists, rises?in a more than 500-n =
~~,high wail. - -- ,, -
?.Eas~ward, the carr-uQrr-Drys so~wh~at and becomes elongated-re-,' '~
~?sembling more a. short hanging trough, the bot"tom of which -is ~ ~ ?
_ ,occupied by taro lakes lying apps o~iwate:.; on the same level,~o: '-The _
=-lakes are separated by low agglomeration of rocky bo~lders~:a~bout~_
- 5~0 in in` width . The upper lake, { 800 to ~~50 m long) adjoins directl
the ?Mansi Glacier, and the altitude of i,ts level is 1,200? m,. :,'50X1-HUM
(according to aneroid measurements).;b 5..~. Boch {in 1935) Mates, ~.
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II. SUBARCTIC URAL MOUNTA?IIdS AREA ~ -
(Approx . 64.000' N toy 65? j0' N; 58?30'8. to ? 63?00'L )
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-' `,a~igle' of '?the s Lope 25 to 30? , ~ ? - j r. -. _ ,-
trie~~sl.ope~~~-breaks ?atiruptly.into the valley of~.the right-, source of
`the~Naroda River? The height of this ledge is~'about, 200 in; trie'~~
' ='-Below) the second' lake, vrhich is smaller ~and~shallower ;(8:?to 10~~m
'(5's.. ~P-.J-1:75) ,' ~ '_ -~ - ~,,? ?, .~~ ~ . - ~ ~ ~ -
and-~ his party, .in:-19~.7, the depth of. _t.he upper' lake is much
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tha?t ;the~':depth~..of botYi? Iakea is'.-from 5: to 8 -m;:, whil~_, the,`auth4r: ?~,~_~
of this' source, notes, that according' to observatiop~ ? made:, by him
=equilibriurii'o4,'the.-jglaci'er'Was~agairi'~~ptisitive~~`-?~(5; ip:- 176).~wriile
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servaf3:oria-made.~in?:1~~F7-rave shown-tfiat in: 197 the iae-.a+-~??
" " `"observatiions~ of 19.5 indicated "that: tYie-~Ledriik~"Mansi 'wdg rece'dinb"o
? .. above;: the source .of the Ruchey (Stream) iAans i (which f ~. x8; ~ri'
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TYie,;,vaaley, of, .the rigYit.?source of the Naroda River i$ direatil
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".the.~lake ), and is barred by a bank rising 80 to 85 m_ ab :~~~:
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in? rturn- a hanging- trough in relation to the main valley- of the:?
Naroda- 'River (5;- P ~ 169 ).- - ~ ' - ~'. "~ ?~ - - .
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Thus ~vA,the trough= of . the Mans i Stream is a hanging trough in re -
Fla~~'an -~to' the right _ source of the Naroda River, and the latter is
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? ?'bottom ?of the main valley-. _, . -
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~lti::.cclaciers~ are-Mound in .tie Ural mountains _ hund'reds' of meters '
below 'trie c limatic-_"snow boundary line,, 'because. of- meteorological
cpinclltions in the `area and ?on ,account of large accumulation of ~ ?
sri`ow "there
In tYie post-glaciation period, larger glaciers existed in
?Pripo7.yarnyy IIral in the valleys of the Khobe-yu; Naroda, Kobyla~
3iu, Limbeko yu and Bolban-yu. Rivers o '
However, the now existing glaciers are not relics of another
period, but are, despita tY~eir small size, "active" glaciers of
contemporary origin. (5, p. 176-177} ~ -
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ASR I1~~'El:LiGENCE [NFORMATIC)N= RE~~RT _ 5ox~-Nunn
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III, EASTBRN SIBERIA `
~.Byranga Mountains
There are steep `slopes up to 500 m ~ 600 m above sea l:e'vel'on '
. the southern fringes -of the Byranga Mountains, called also ? ~ _
? Byranga Plateau; this plateau dro s gently in the north toward ~??`
the Acetic ocean. (6, vo I, p, 63~ .
Novosibirskiye Islands _
Kotel'n Island, the largest of the Novosibirskiye o~trova
. (Islands, has an elevation 320 m. (6, v, I,. p. 64 )
Benneta Island, located north Qf Novosibirskiye Islands, is
23 km long, and up' to x?50 m high, The island ~ has a form of a `
plateau about 300 m high. (6, v. I, p. 6~+, 65)
Yeniseyskiy Ridge ?
The Yeniseyskiy kryazh (Ridge) south of the Angara River is 300 m
to x}50 m above aed le~,rel, and the bluffs over the Yeriisey ~?Ri"ver'
-' are. 75 to 100 m high 'over that river. This ridge reaches
1,132 m height ~Yenashiminskiy Polkan) north of the Angara River.,
almost under 60 0~ tih~;*;~narthern=1~~la~titude~? : T-he,,Yenisey River ,
Valley widens to 100_'~k~i~?.:~a?f?~ re i~ece : ?v-`3~1~ '~'?~~a~`~podkamennaya ? _'
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The Srednesibirskoye Plateau (Ploskogor'ye) extends from the
Yeniseyskiy Ridge in the west to the foothills of the
Verkhoyanskiy Range in the east; it borders in the north on the
Severo=Sibirskaya nizmennost' (which has an average height. of,
50 >u to 70 m above sea level) approximately along a line from the-
Yenisey River at the Arctic Circle to the lowlands of the Olenek
River; in the southeast the plateau approaches the Aldan River
where tiles latter is_ xiide and whP~, the heights do not exceed
300 m; the southern fringe of the plateau in the 0lekma ,River area'
runs approximately along the 59? of the northern latitv.~e
(6, vo I, p. 11~F)
The,`height of the watershed between the Lena and the'Vilyuy
Rivers is about 500 m; the height of the watershed drops down
toward the Lena River and east of it, between the Lena and the
Aldan Rivers, ~it is 200 m to X00 m. (6, vo I, p. 115)
Cliff banks on both sides of the Lena River with frequent lime-
stone? columnar rocks called "stolby" extend from belox the mouth
of the Vitim River down to Pokrovskoye village; the river?is 3 to
~# km wide in that area. In addition to the meadow terrace there
' ;ire tSVO terraces above the flood plain all? along the middle
course of the Lena River; populated settlements are on these ~
terracesa At Pokrovskoye the river valley widens; at Yakutsk it
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PAGQ ~ ~ OF 17 .~PAG>;s
(Apgrox , 55oN to 76?N; 80?E.' to 150?E )
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AF. FORM 112-PART 11
APPROVED 1 JUNE ISlB' '
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is about 20 km wide, and the river is about .1Q kmwwide.and has ;
many isl8.nds. Yakutsk stands on a terrace above' the (load plain,
1.08 m above sea level. ~ There the left tank rises about 100 m .
abo116the terrace, and the right bank?is somewhat lower (6;_ v. I,
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1'Yie elevations of the ISrednesibirskoye] plateau,~shoym on maps
as.,ranges are in fact table mountains. ?The Tunguskiye mountains
form the watershed between the Nizhnyaya Tunguska and the Vilyuy'
Rivers; .the average height pf these mountains is X30 m in the
south, and 730~m to $Od m in the north; their summits rise to,
900 m -- 1,050 mo On the upper Kureyka, Rotuy, and~Kheta Rivers,
there are heights up to 1,500 m.
The Noril'skoye Plateau, ?ocated in the upper Pyasina area in the '
northwestern part of tYw-Srednesibirskoye Plateau,-has an average
height of 500 m to 600 m. above sea level; this plateau breaks
Steeply' 1n the north over the tundra and over the' Yenisey River. ~ ? '
,'A? deep valley with steep slopes ris?ing to 700-,tn of relative - _ ?.
height rune toward Lama lake; the lake is 2 km:long, up to 7,5~km
wide, and its deepest place is 208 m. ~ ~'
.?The Vilyuyskiye table mountains are on the watershed between zhe:"
Vilyuy and the Olenek Rivers; the Lyuchar-0ngo~ton massive consti--
-tutee the ?xatershed? for the' Khatanga, Olea2ek and the Vilyuy~?Rivez~s '
-east ~of~~ this IwatershedJ the ,hei-ght of the Vilyuyskiye mountains.
does not exceed 600 m. ~ (6,' v: Y,_ p. 117) _ ..
_The area between Yakutsk and the A_mba River is cut by very'many_-
-shallo~r hollows and gorges in~all directions; 'and has a,very large
number of small lakes o (6, v",, I, p . 119) ~ , .. .
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Kanskoye~and Manskoye White Uplands
A mountain chain forming a watershed between the Kan and Mena
Rivers on one side and the Tuba River on the other, extends from ~~
the point where the Zapadn~ry and Vostochnyy S~yans meet, i.e`, 'in~ ;~
'the area o~ the sources of .the Uda, Biryusa wind Kazyr ~ Rivers, ? ;,
and.-where the height of the mountains is up to 3,000 m, to the '_
w~es ~~north-west, and consists. of a number of massives: the
Kanskoye White Uplands (belogor~ye},.2.152. m high, on the upper '
Kan River, and the Manskoye White Uplands Fig, .12 ), west of '~the~ ~~''
top of -the Mena River at an average he igkit of 1, 500 m to 1, 550 gin;.
with elevations tc 1,00 m. (6, vp II,' p. 39~.) ~~ ; .: , ~ -;}'
Stolby ~RRI station is at the height of~about 700 m, at approxi?
matel 56oN, and 93?& in the Yostochnyy Sayan foothills (6, w.:_ ?II,
p. 39~} '
-~Titimsko~e Plateau
~Titimskoye Plateau extends northwest of Yablonovyy Range; it is
850 m to 1,50 m above sea level, u*ith heights, of 1,000 to I, 350
predominating. (6, v. II, p. $12)
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750 m high. ~T, ' 2,~edit.~, e, 30~ 135~~ +Pa. 571
i, 5vu m high..: The loweet? ,part ? of, ytYie ;plateau; ~ "-the
~Oymyakon$kaya,: ,
Depression, lt3ti3,ated along the~-~Indi~~.~k$. River, is about: 700 t~o~ ??'
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The Cherskogo Range is 2,000 m to 2,500 ra high in the?area ~ih~ere? ,
it is cut by the Indigirka River; the ,Chen Mountain rises 2,;685 ~o
The Indigirka River valley ~.s Prom 1, 500 m to 2,.000 m below ;;the
top of the summits in the highest part of the range, This '3~anger~ :" ?
is .dismembered particularly in its southern end, i.e. in the- _- ?-
Kolyma River basin?~rhere it is up to 250 km wide, and where it '
changes into ranges and groups, separated by valleys and highlands'
(melkogor~ye} 1,000 m to 1,300 m high; here occur the highest '`'~'
groups of mountains -~. 2,100' ? m ao 2, 500 ? m ~ high o
The. Tomus-khay-a, or Garmychan, Range;, is located in the basins, of
the ? Moms River, right tributary , of the Indfgir}sa
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Yasachnaya River,. le~ft`~~- tributary of the" Kolyma. The Q3rmychan
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extends west through the Moms River basin to the left ~Sa.nk of the
Indigirka River where it ~?ins the Taskhayatakbiw~
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the watershed area between the Indigirka and th'~ :3~a~`yRige~e' a]