Which eastern Siberian range near Verkhoyansk is about 1,100 km long?

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The eastern Siberian range near Verkhoyansk that stretches about 1,100 km is the Verkhoyansk Range.

It lies mainly in Russia’s Sakha Republic and forms part of the East Siberian Mountains. The range runs in a broad arc between the Lena and Aldan river systems to the west and the Yana River to the east. The Chersky Range lies to its east, making that name a plausible but incorrect distractor.

The mountains formed through folding and represent a large anticline near the boundary between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates. Glaciers shaped parts of the range during the Last Glacial Period, leaving alpine relief in northern sections such as the Orulgan Range.

The Verkhoyansk Range is also associated with extreme cold: nearby Verkhoyansk recorded an inhabited-place low of −67.8 °C. Its highest point, in the restricted modern sense, is an unnamed 2,409-metre summit in the Orulgan Range. Suntar-Khayata is a related southeastern range sometimes treated separately.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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