Ulan-Burgas (; , from улаан - "red", and бургааһан, "small birch" or "shrub")Мельхеев М. Н. Географические названия Восточной Сибири (Melkheev M.N. Geographical names of Eastern Siberia) is a mountain range in Buryatia, Russia.
The range is located close to Ulan-Ude, the capital of Buryatia.Google Earth
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 is between and . The highest peak is Khurkhag at , located in the central part., Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M, 1969-1978.
The northeastern end of the Ulan-Burgas connects with the Ikat Range and the eastern and southern ends are part of the Selenga Highlands.Natalʹi︠a︡ Vasilʹevna Fadeeva, Селенгинское среднегорье: природные условия и районирование (Selenga Highlands: Natural Conditions and Zoning) Buryat Book Publishing House, 1963 - Physical geography - 169 pages, 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.Topographic map sheets N-49-XXV, N-49-XXVI, N-49-XXXI and N-48-XXXV. Scale: 1: 200 000.
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.
See also South Siberian Mountains References
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