Ulan-Burgas


Ulan-Burgas, is a mountain range in Buryatia, Russia.
The range is located close to Ulan-Ude, the capital of Buryatia.

Geography

The Ulan-Burgas range is located in Central Buryatia. It rises east of the Baikal Lake, stretching for from southwest to northeast between the valley of the Selenga River to the Vitim Plateau. The width of the range is from and and its average elevation between and. The highest peak is Khurkhag at located in the central part.
The northeastern end of the Ulan-Burgas connects with the Ikat Range and the eastern and southern ends are part of the Selenga Highlands. At one end of the range is the valley of the Turka River that flows into Lake Baikal and at the other end the Kurba, a right tributary of the Uda from the Selenga River basin.

Flora

The slopes of the range are mainly covered with Alpine-steppe vegetation from the foot of the mountains to an elevation between and, above which in most of the parts of the range there is a larch taiga forest belt up to about. The higher elevations are topped by "golets" type bare summits.