Ynnakh Mountain, also known as Arga Ynnakh Khaya (), Gora Ulakhan Ynnakh () and as Mother Mountain (), is a mountain in Verkhoyansky District, Yakutia, Russian Federation.
The mountain has been classified as a natural monument of Russia with number 1420068. It is an important mountain in Yakut culture, where the word "Ynnakh" comes from , meaning scary, creepy.
Geography Ynnakh Mountain is a granite massif located north of the Yana Plateau between the Yana River and the Adycha, a right hand tributary of the Yana. The mountain rises at the western limit of the Chersky Range, near the eastern foothills of the Verkhoyansk Range, a few miles to the southeast of Ese-Khayya.
The height of the summit is according to the Operational Navigation Chart. According to other sources it is high.Palaeoclimate characteristics in interior Siberia of MIS 6–2: First insights from the Batagay permafrost mega-thaw slump in the Yana Highlands The mineral kesterite is found in the mountain.
Flora There is sparse forest in the lower slopes and at the feet of the mountain. Mid and higher elevations have mountain tundra with mosses and lichens.
See also List of mountains in Russia
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Beauty to share - Yakutia Arga-Ynnakh-Khaya granite Massif, Yana-Adycha Region Wolframoixiolite in lithium-fluoric granites of the Arga-Ynnakh-Khaysky massif, Yakutia