Chingiztau

a mountain range in the eastern Kazakh Melkosopochnik, in the Kazakh SSR. The Chingiztau measures approximately 200 km in length and rises to elevations of 1,078 m at Mt. Kosbastau in the northwest and 1,305 m at Mt. Kosoba in the Akshatau Range in the southeast. The range is composed of Paleozoic sandstones, shales, limestones, and porphyrites. Mountain steppes, as well as aspen-birch forests and osier thickets, are found in the valleys.