page_title: Abakan Range
section_title: Vegetation
hierarchical_section_title: Abakan Range / Vegetation
caption_attribution_description: English: Silver firs In Pittenderich Wood.
context_page_description: Abakan Range is a metamorphic rock mountain range in the Southwestern Siberia, Russia: length: 300 km, elevation: up to 1,984 m. It is mostly covered by taiga, up to 1,500 m, followed by mountainous tundra. The range also consists sparse areas of granite, gabbro, and diorite.
  The range is the southern border of the Kuznetsk Depression that contains the Kuznetsk Basin of Kemerovo Oblast. The range is part of the water divide between Abakan River, Tom River, and Lebed River. It is a Northern extension of Altai Mountains and Southern extension of Kuznetsk Alatau. See Geography of South-Central Siberia.
context_section_description: The Abakan Range has forests of dark coniferous taiga, which include silver fir, spruce, and cedar, growing on its slopes up to an elevation of 1,700 m (5,577 ft). Higher than that, the mountains are covered in tundra.
caption: Silver fir
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