Taganai

Taganai

 

(also Bol’shoi Taganai), a mountain range in the Southern Urals, in Cheliabinsk Oblast, RSFSR. The range is 25 km long and rises to an elevation of 1,177 m at Mount Kruglitsa. It is composed of schists and quartzites. The slopes feature pine forests with mixtures of spruce and birch, and the summit has oddly shaped erosion remnants and rock streams.