In the wake of his studies, a large Russian military expedition led by Nikolai Khristoforovich Akhte continued the exploration of the area between 1849 and 1853.

In 1861 German botanist and geologist of the Russian service Fyodor Schmidt carried out thorough physiographic and geological research in the area of the range.

[2] In 1987 a 358,444 hectares (885,730 acres) section of the central and southern part of the range was declared a protected area (zapovednik), the Bureya Nature Reserve.

The highest point of the range is an unnamed peak with a height of 2,175 metres (7,136 ft) located roughly in the central part.

[6] The lower slopes of the range are covered with spruce and larch forests up to altitudes of 1,300 metres (4,300 ft), followed by thickets of dwarf cedar and mountain tundra at higher elevations.