Sayan Mountains (säyän`), central Asia, chiefly in S Siberia. The Eastern Sayan Mts. extend c.680 mi (1,090 km) from the lower Yenisei River to the southwest end of Lake Baykal and rise to 11,686 ft (3,562 m) in the Munku-Sardyk; they form part of the Russian-Mongolian border. The Western Sayan Mts., rising to 10,206 ft (3,111 m) in the Kyzyl-Tayga, extend c.400 mi (640 km) NE from the Altai range to the central section of the Eastern Sayan Mts. There are a variety of mineral deposits in the Sayan Mts. Lumbering, agriculture, and hunting are the chief occupations there.

Sayan Mountains

Large upland region on the frontiers of east-central Russia and Mongolia. The mountains form a rough arc stretching from the Altai Mountains to Lake Baikal and connecting with the Khamar-Daban mountain system of the Transbaikalia. The western and eastern ranges, each with a different geologic history, meet in a central knot where elevations exceed 10,000 ft (3,000 m). The range's highest peak is Munku-Sardyk, in Mongolia, which reaches an elevation of 11,453 ft (3,491 m).

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Whereas the etymology of suomi as a Baltic loanword she criticizes is, indeed, of enormous complexity, the alternative she posits, the toponym sumi in the region of the Sayan mountains, first proposed by M.

Angela Marcantonio: The Uralic Language Family by De Smit, Merlijn / Linguistica Uralica

report that a tragic helicopter accident occurred on July 1, 1998 at Samarta, a mining camp at one of its operations, the Zun-Holba mine in the East- Sayan mountains of the Republic of Buryatia.

High River Gold/Buryatzoloto Joint Press Release -- Buryatzoloto ... by Business Wire