The Oymyakon Plateau (Russian: Оймяконское плоскогорье, Yakut: Өймөкөөн үрдэлэ) is a mountain plateau in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.
The plateau is in the area of the famous Oymyakon Depression, where record low temperatures are registered, although the region is about 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) to the south of the geographic North Pole.
[2] The Oymyakon Plateau is located in the eastern Sakha Republic, in the upper course of the Indigirka River.
[5] The elevation of the plateau surface has two clearly delimited zones and in the intermontane basins, frosty air is trapped in the winter creating inversions.
[5] There are taiga type forests of larch up to 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) and mountain tundra in the higher elevations.