The Lena Plateau, also known as Prilensky Plateau, is one of the great plateaus of Siberia. Administratively it is mostly within the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), with a small sector in the Irkutsk Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The plateau is named after the Lena River, which flows across it.
View of the Sinyyaya Pillars in the plateau
Cliffs by the Lena and sparse forest in the winter
Buotama River Valley
The Lena is a river in the Russian Far East, and is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean. The Lena is the eleventh-longest river in the world, and the longest river entirely within Russia, with a length of 4,294 km (2,668 mi) and a drainage basin of 2,490,000 km2 (960,000 sq mi). Permafrost underlies most of the catchment, 77% of which is continuous.
The Lena Pillars along the river near Yakutsk
The river around 1890
Lena River Delta in Autumn 2014
Lena river Delta by Landsat, February 2000