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an upland plain in the eastern Altai, between the Chulyshman River valley on the southwest and the Shapshal Range on the northeast. In the western and southern parts of the Chulyshman Plateau, massifs composed of crystalline schists and granites rise to a maximum elevation of 3,148 m above the generally flat surface, whose average elevation is 2,000–2,200 m. The Chulyshman Plateau is drained by ...

... Shapshal Range at an elevation of 2,199 m. Dzhulukul’ is of morainic origin. It has an area of 29.5 sq km and is 10 km long and 3 km wide. Its maximum depth is about 7 m. The Chulyshman River, which rises 5 km northwest of Dzhulukul’, flows through the lake. The lake is rich in fish.

a river in Altai in the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Oblast; a left tributary of the Chulyshman River. The Bash-kaus is 219 km long and drains a basin of 7,770 sq km. It rises from a cirque lake in the eastern part of the Kuraiskii Mountain Range. In its lower reaches, it flows in a narrow valley, which often turns ...

a mountain range in the Altai on the boundary between Gorno-Altai Autonomous Oblast and the Tuva ASSR. The Shapshal Range forms the divide between the Ob’ system (the Chulyshman River) and the left sources of the Enisei (the Alash and Khemchik rivers). The range is approximately 130 km long and rises to 3,507 m. It is composed primarily of schists. In the northern part of the range, the divides ...

a locality in the Chulyshman River valley in the Altai Mountains, where, in 1924–25, the Soviet archaeologist S. I. Rudenko investigated a burial ground of Altai Turks dating from the sixth to eighth centuries. Graves of warriors, buried with ...