Svydovets

The Svydovets (Ukrainian Свидівець; Russian Свидовец; Polish Świdowiec; Czech and Slovak Svidovec; German Swydiwez) is a mountain range in western Ukraine, one of the ranges of Eastern Beskids, itself belonging to the Outer Eastern Carpathians.[1]

Svydovets Mountains

Geography
Map with the Svydovets range marked in red

Svydovets hosts one of the ten units of the Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians, recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007.

The higher peaks include:

  • Blysnyzi (Близниці - 1883 meters)
  • Tataruka (Татарука - 1774 meters)
  • Dohjaska (Догяска - 1764 meters)
  • Unharjaska (Унгаряска - 1707 meters)

See also

References
  1. Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Svydivets

Sources
  • Földvary, Gábor Z. (1988). Geology of the Carpathian Region. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company. ISBN 9789813103825.
  • Tasenkevich, Lydia (2009). "Polonynas: Highlands Pastures in the Ukrainian Carpathians". Grasslands in Europe: Of High Nature Value. Zeist: KNNV Publishing. pp. 203–208. ISBN 9789004278103.


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