Lateral Range

Lateral Range
Боковой хребет / გვერდითი ქედი
Side view of the Maly Azau glacier
Highest point
Peak	Mount Elbrus
Elevation	5,642 m (18,510 ft)
Dimensions
Length	1,100 km (680 mi) ESE/WNW
Geography
Location in Russia Show map of Caucasus mountains Lateral Range (European Russia) Show map of European Russia
Country	Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan
Federal subjects	Krasnodar Krai, Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia, Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan
Range coordinates	43°0′N 43°24′E / 43.000°N 43.400°E / 43.000; 43.400
Parent range	Greater Caucasus
Geology
Age of rock	Paleozoic

The Lateral Range^[a] is a mountain range in the Russian Federation and Georgia, with a very small part in Azerbaijan. The range is part of the Greater Caucasus.

Some swathes of the range are protected areas, under the Kabardino-Balkaria Nature Reserve and the North Ossetia Nature Reserve.^[1][2]

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