The most raised part of the Sredne-Siberian plateau - mountains Putorana on which takes place a route. As mountains Putorana consider a basalt plateau on northwest suburb of the Sredne-Siberian plateau. It is stretched from an Arctic circle almost to 71® these and from 88® to 101® century д. (More than 500 km). In these limits the area of a province of Putorana makes 284000 клг. The average height of mountains 900 - 1200 m, and the highest - 1701 m is in their central part. The most typical line of mountains Putorana - a combination платообразных the levelled surfaces of hills and deep lake hollows, and also river valleys with каньонистыми coast. Differences in height 800 - 1000 m. In the west are most extended, the north and the east the basalt plateau breaks sharp ledges to 300 - 500 m of height to Western-Siberian and North Siberian plain and to a calcareous Kotujsky plateau. To the plateau south smoothly goes down, gradually passing to the general level of plateau with heights 500 - 700 m.
The indigenous population of Tajmyra - саха (долганы), ненцы, нганасаны, эвенни takes active part in strengthening экономичесѓкой bases of edge. To the Great October socialist revolution the population conducted a nomadic way of life, keeping the rests родовного a system. As a result of realisation of a national policy of the CPSU коѓчевое the population has united in collective farms, passes to settled way of life, shots of local national intelligency grow. The considerable part of the population is made by Russian.