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The Chersky Range is a chain of mountain
Mountain

A mountain is a landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill....
s in northeastern Siberia
Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
. The range was discovered in 1926 by Sergei Obruchev (Vladimir Obruchev
Vladimir Obruchev

Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev was a Russian geologist who specialized in the study of Siberia and Central Asia. He was also one of the first science fiction authors in Russia....
's son) who named it after a Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian explorer and geographer, Ivan Chersky (or Jan Czerski). It generally runs from northwest to southeast through the Sakha Republic
Sakha Republic

The Sakha Republic is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . At half the size of the Far Eastern Federal District, it is the list of the largest country subdivisions by area in the world at 3,100,000 km? with a population of less than one million....
 and Magadan Oblast
Magadan Oblast

Magadan Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia in the Far Eastern Federal District federal districts of Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Magadan....
, near the Verkhoyansk Range
Verkhoyansk Range

The Verkhoyansk Range is a mountain range of eastern Siberia, spanning ca. 1000 km , across the Sakha Republic. It forms a vast arc between the Lena and Aldan River rivers to the west and the Yana River to the east....
 and the Indigirka River
Indigirka River

Indigirka River is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia. It is 1,726 km in length. The area of its drainage basin is 360,000 km?. The river flows into the Kolyma Bay, East Siberian Sea....
 basin. The tallest mountain in the range is Peak Pobeda, which is 3,003 meters tall.






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The Chersky Range is a chain of mountain
Mountain

A mountain is a landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill....
s in northeastern Siberia
Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
. The range was discovered in 1926 by Sergei Obruchev (Vladimir Obruchev
Vladimir Obruchev

Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev was a Russian geologist who specialized in the study of Siberia and Central Asia. He was also one of the first science fiction authors in Russia....
's son) who named it after a Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian explorer and geographer, Ivan Chersky (or Jan Czerski). It generally runs from northwest to southeast through the Sakha Republic
Sakha Republic

The Sakha Republic is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . At half the size of the Far Eastern Federal District, it is the list of the largest country subdivisions by area in the world at 3,100,000 km? with a population of less than one million....
 and Magadan Oblast
Magadan Oblast

Magadan Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia in the Far Eastern Federal District federal districts of Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Magadan....
, near the Verkhoyansk Range
Verkhoyansk Range

The Verkhoyansk Range is a mountain range of eastern Siberia, spanning ca. 1000 km , across the Sakha Republic. It forms a vast arc between the Lena and Aldan River rivers to the west and the Yana River to the east....
 and the Indigirka River
Indigirka River

Indigirka River is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia. It is 1,726 km in length. The area of its drainage basin is 360,000 km?. The river flows into the Kolyma Bay, East Siberian Sea....
 basin. The tallest mountain in the range is Peak Pobeda, which is 3,003 meters tall. The range lies on the boundary between the Eurasian
Eurasian Plate

The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate which includes most of the continent of Eurasia , with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Chersky Range in East Siberia....
 and North American
North American Plate

The North American Plate is a tectonic plate covering most of North America, Greenland and part of Siberia. It extends eastward to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and westward to the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia....
 tectonic plate
Tectonic Plate

#REDIRECT Plate tectonics...
s.

The Chersky mountains, along with the neighboring Verkhoyansk range, have a moderate effect on the climate of Siberia. The ridges obstruct west-moving air flows, decreasing the amount of snowfall in the plains to the west.

Tectonics

The precise nature of the boundary between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates in the area of the Chersky Range is still not fully understood and is the subject of ongoing research. By the 1980s, the Chersky Range was considered mostly a zone of continental rifting where the crust was spreading apart. However, the current view is that the Chersky Range is mostly an active suture zone, a continental convergent plate boundary, where compression is occurring as the two plates press against each other. There is believed to be a point in the Chersky Range where the extensional forces coming from the north change to the compressional forces noted throughout most of the range. The Chersky Range is also thought to include a geologic triple junction
Triple junction

A triple junction is the point where the boundaries of three tectonic plates meet. At the triple junction a boundary will be one of 3 types - a Mid-ocean ridge, oceanic trench or transform fault and triple junctions can be described according to the types of plate margin that meet at them....
 where the Ulakhan Fault
Ulakhan Fault

The Ulakhan Fault is a left-lateral moving transform fault which runs along the boundary between two tectonic plates in northeast Asia, the North American Plate, and the Okhotsk Plate....
 intersects the suture zone. Whatever the exact nature of the regional tectonics, the Chersky Range is a seismically active zone. It connects in the north with a the landward extension of the Laptev Sea Rift
Laptev Sea Rift

The Laptev Sea Rift is a divergent tectonic plate boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate located on the Arctic Ocean coast of northeastern Siberia in Russia....
, itself a continental extension of the Mid-Arctic Ridge (Gakkel Ridge).