NORTH SIBERIAN LOWLAND

Russian Severo-sibirskaya Nizmennost, low-lying region, east-central Russia. It is situated between the lower Yenisey River in the west and the lower Kolyma River in the east. To the south lies the Central Siberian Plateau, to the north the Byrranga Mountains of the Taymyr Peninsula, and farther east the Laptev Sea. The western part of the plain is sometimes known as the Taymyr Plain, and the portion east of the Lena River as the Yana-Indigirka and Kolyma plains. The lowland has an east-west extent of 1,850 miles (3,000 km) and a width of up to 375 miles (600 km) and lies at 165230 feet (5070 m) above sea level. There are frequent low ridges and hills. The plain is extremely swampy, and the vegetation is tundra or forest-tundra in character.