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ukok plateau wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 terminology 2 geography 3 history 4 transport 5 see also 6 references 7 further reading 8 external links toggle the table of contents ukok plateau 25 languages العربية مصرى azərbaycanca башҡортса català cebuano ελληνικά español فارسی français magyar italiano 日本語 қазақша ladin македонски nederlands norsk nynorsk norsk bokmål polski русский türkçe українська tiếng việt 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide coordinates 49 18 28 n 87 35 41 e 49 3078 n 87 5947 e 49 3078 87 5947 from wikipedia the free encyclopedia plateau in altai republic russia ukok plateau укок hohegh tarkhatinskoe lake on the ukok plateau geography ukok plateau location within continental asia show map of continental asia ukok plateau location within altai republic show map of altai republic country russia federal subject altai republic range coordinates 49 18 28 n 87 35 41 e 49 3078 n 87 5947 e 49 3078 87 5947 pazyryk carpet 5th century bc ukok plateau russian укок is a plateau covered by grasslands located in southwestern siberia in the altai mountains region of russia near the borders with china kazakhstan and mongolia the plateau is recognized as part of the unesco world heritage site entitled golden mountains of altai as an important environmental treasure it provides a habitat for many of the world s endangered species including one of its least studied predatory animals the snow leopard other endangered species protected there include the argali mountain sheep the steppe eagle and the black stork 1 it is also one of the last remaining remnants of the mammoth steppe there are several threats to the preservation of the ukok plateau including overuse of the steppe by ranchers 2 a proposed road and plans for a gas pipeline between china and russia terminology edit the mongolian word uheg literally means elongated cabinet box massive mountain or big hill with a flat top according to the oral testimony of s umurzakova ukok in kyrgyz used to refer to flat topped mountains i e plateaus citation needed geography edit the ukok plateau is the high mountainous plain located between south altai and sailugem and ridges at a height of 2 200 2 500 m 7 200 8 200 ft above sea level there are 500 600 metre high 1 600 2 000 ft mountain peaks that tower above the plateau the highest peak on the plateau is the mountain knot of tavan bogdo ula five sacred peaks where the highest mountain is khüiten peak that reaches 4 374 m 14 350 ft above sea level this is the second highest peak in siberia after belukha mountain 3 the present day eastern altai sayan region areas of ukok sailiugem could be considered the closest analogy to the ancient mammoth steppe environment 4 history edit horseman pazyryk felt artifact c 300 bc mummy of the siberian ice maiden pazyryk is the name given by modern scholars to an ancient people who lived in the altai mountains on this plateau who are associated with some spectacular archeological findings including mummies found frozen in the permafrost many ancient bronze age tomb mounds have been found in the area and have been associated with the pazyryk culture which closely resembled that of the legendary scythian people to the west 5 the term kurgan is in general usage to describe such log barrow burials excavations of this site have continued to yield notable archaeological finds 6 one famous finding is known as the ice maiden excavated by russian archaeologist natalia polosmak 7 8 at least six tattooed mummies dating from the period ca c 2600 bc ad 402 have been recovered preserved by the permafrost in tombs at sites on the ukok plateau including temrta iii primorsky i ak alakha 3 verkh kaldzhin 2 and the pazyryk burial ground 9 the ice maiden and other archaeological finds were located just within a disputed strip of land between russia and china 10 the residents of the altai republic are demanding the return of the burial artifacts from their current location in novosibirsk 11 transport edit mountain pass teplyi kluch august 2012 the ukok plateau is linked to the outside world by heavy going dirt roads through the ukok russia kazakhstan border ulan daba russia mongolia border teplyi kluch and kalgutinsky passes the teplyi kluch pass is at an altitude of 2 907 m 9 537 ft one may get to these passes from kosh agach village which is easily reachable owing to a relatively improved m52 highway the so called chuysky tract southward beyond kosh agach the way becomes impassable for common means of transport and passable only for off road vehicles however even they could become stuck in swamp mud in the kalguty river valley especially after a sunny day when frozen soil begins thawing for most of the year the passes are snow covered and avalanche prone during the short summer season all the slopes are prone to solifluction see also edit siberia portal references edit protect snow leopard habitat siberia forests org archived from the original on 2007 09 27 retrieved 2007 07 31 altai saving the pearl of siberia archived from the original on 2007 03 22 retrieved 2006 11 30 ukok plateau archived from the original on 2016 03 31 retrieved 2016 03 28 pavelková řičánková věra robovský jan riegert jan 2014 ecological structure of recent and last glacial mammalian faunas in northern eurasia the case of altai sayan refugium plos one 9 1 e85056 bibcode 2014ploso 985056p doi 10 1371 journal pone 0085056 pmc 3890305 pmid 24454791 bahn paul g 2000 the atlas of world geology new york checkmark books p 128 isbn 0 8160 4051 6 golden mountains of altai unesco retrieved 2007 07 31 ice mummies siberian ice maiden pbs nova retrieved 2007 07 31 prehistoric art early nomads of the altaic region the hermitage museum archived from the original on 2007 06 22 retrieved 2007 07 31 deter wolf aaron robitaille benoît krutak lars galliot sébastien february 2016 the world s oldest tattoos journal of archaeological science reports 5 19 24 bibcode 2016jarsr 5 19d doi 10 1016 j jasrep 2015 11 007 s2cid 162580662 leigh fenly december 8 2004 archaeology news archived from the original on august 2 2009 retrieved 2007 11 27 minor nationality of russia demands the return of princess of ukok pravda february 21 2005 retrieved 2007 11 27 further reading edit s i rudenko kul tura naseleniia gornogo altaia v skifskoe vremia the population of the high altai in scythian times moscow and leningrad 1953 translated as frozen tombs of siberia the pazyryk burials of iron age horsemen m w thompson tr university of california press berkeley 1970 isbn 0 520 01395 6 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to ukok plateau photos of ukok plateau altai photo greater altai altai krai republic of altai tyva tuva and novosibirsk a collection at novosibirsk state university site including pazyryk link removed life in ukok plateau photostory authority control databases international viaf gnd fast national united states israel other yale lux retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title ukok_plateau oldid 1372437920 categories archaeological sites in siberia archaeology of siberia prehistoric sites in russia plateaus of asia altai mountains nomadic groups in eurasia landforms of the altai republic plateaus of russia iranian nomads hidden categories articles with short description 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