The Ukelayat Range () is a range of mountains in Kamchatka Krai, Russian Far East. The range is part of the Koryak Highland system and administratively it belongs to Olyutorsky District.Google Earth
The name of the range comes from the Koryak "vukvylgayat" (Вуквылгаят), meaning "rock/fall".Leontiev V.V., Novikova K.A. Toponymic dictionary of the North-East of the USSR / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovshchikov; FEB AS USSR . North-East complex. Research Institute. Lab. archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magadan . book. publishing house, 1989. - S. 290. - 456 p. — ISBN 5-7581-0044-7 .
Geography The Ukelayat Range rises above the southern side of the valley of the Ukelayat river. It stretches in a roughly east–west direction with its eastern end close to the Bering Sea, between Dezhnyov Bay and Anastasii Bay. To the south rises the Snegovoy Range and to the north, above the other bank of the Ukelayat river, the Pikas Range.
The highest point is Ledyanaya, a high rocky peak topped by an ice cap, which is also the highest point of the Koryak Highlands.Ledyanaya - Peak Visor To the east, not far from the sea, rises high Mt Undyer (гора Ундер).
The Ukelayat Range has also the largest glacier of the highland area, the Slozhny Glacier with a surface of . The range includes two of the three major glacier regions of the Koryak Highlands, having 344 glaciers with a total area of .Осипова Г. Б. Корякское нагорье (ледниковая система) ледники и снежники // Научно-популярная энциклопедия «Вода России»Рундквист Н. Каприз блуждающего пальца. Корякское нагорье // Широко шагая. — Екатеринбург: Квист, 2014. — 576 сArctic Bibliography, Volume 11, Arctic Institute of North America. p. 827
Flora and fauna The mountains are covered with mountain tundra, bare rocky areas, dwarf forests and shrub birches. Willow thickets, with diamondleaf willow, feltleaf willow and Salix krylovii, may be found in some of the river valleys.V. Yu. Neshataeva, Vegetation cover of the North of the Kamchatka Okrug (Kamchatsky Krai) and its geobotanical zoning // Ecology and geography of plants and plant communities: Proceedings of the IV International Scientific Conference. - Yekaterinburg, 2018. - April 16. — ISBN 978-5-7741-0341-6
The Ukelayat Range provides a habitat for the snow sheep.
See also Bering tundra List of mountains and hills of Russia
References
External links The Penzhina-West Kamchatka folded zone and the Ukelayat-Sredinnyi block in the structure of the Koryak Highland and Kamchatka Mountain - Russia