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Glaciers of Ugam Range.

In Ugam Mountains Tours.
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There are more than 100 glaciers in Ugam ridge with a total area of glaciation over 50 square kilometers.
Largest glaciers of Ugam range.
Chotan-1 Glacier, with a length of 4.1 kilometers, an area of 2.4 square kilometers, is located at an altitude of 2900 to 3800 meters above sea level, belongs to the Pskem River Basin.
Chotan-2 Glacier, with a length of 3.9 kilometers, an area of 3.4 square kilometers, is located at an altitude of 3240 to 4000 meters above sea level, belongs to the Pskem River Basin.
Ayutor Glacier, with a length of 3.8 kilometers, an area of 3.9 square kilometers, located at an altitude of 3150 to 3880 meters above sea level, belongs to the Pskem river basin.
Glacier Baldabrek, with a length of 3.6 kilometers, an area of 2.8 square kilometers, located at an altitude of 3220 to 4090 meters above sea level, belongs to the Arys river basin.
Karzhailau Glacier, with a length of 3.5 kilometers, an area of 5.3 square kilometers, located at an altitude of 3200 to 3500 meters above sea level, belongs to the Arys river basin.
Ayutor-2 glacier, with a length of 3.5 kilometers, an area of 3.8 square kilometers, located at an altitude of 3300 to 4000 meters above sea level, belongs to the Pskem river basin.
Akbulakulkun Glacier, with a length of 2.2 kilometers, an area of 1.8 square kilometers, located at an altitude of 3040 to 4050 meters above sea level, belongs to the Pskem River Basin.
Ayutor Glacier, 3.2 km long, 1.8 square kilometers in area, located at an altitude of 3060 to 3800 meters above sea level, belongs to the Pskem River Basin.
Tekeshsay glacier, with a length of 3.2 kilometers, an area of 1.6 square kilometers, is located at an altitude of 3100 to 4100 meters above sea level, belongs to the Pskem river basin.
Ivanov Glacier, with a length of 3.0 kilometers, an area of 3.0 square kilometers, located at an altitude of 3200 to 4050 meters above sea level, belongs to the Pskem River Basin.
Glaciers Chotan-4 Glacier, Chotan-3, with a length of 2.5 kilometers, an area of 1.1 square kilometers, located at an altitude of 3200 to 3800 meters above sea level, belongs to the Pskem River Basin.
Authority:
"Glaciers." L.D. Dolgushin, G.B. Osipova. Series "Nature of the world." Moscow, the publishing house "Thought". 1989.
Photos by:
Alexander Petrov.