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[[File:Pay Khoy Ridge.svg|200px|thumbnail|right|Pay Khoy Ridge]]
The '''Pay-Khoy ridge''' ({{lang-rus|хребет Пай-Хой}}) is a mountain range at the northern end of the [[Ural Mountains]]. It lies within the [[Nenets Autonomous Okrug]].

==Geography==
The ridge is extended from northwest to southeast. It is located on the [[Yugorsky Peninsula]], in the eastern part of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The ridge continues to the [[Vaygach Island]], thus separating the [[Barents Sea]] and the [[Kara Sea]]. The highest point of Pay-Khoy is the mountain of [[Moreiz]] ({{convert|467|m|ft}}).<ref name="GSE">{{cite book| title = Пай-Хой| url = http://bse.sci-lib.com/article086255.html| publisher = Great Soviet Encyclopedia}}</ref> The ridge separates the [[drainage basin]]s of the [[Korotaikha River]] (west, Barents Sea) and the [[Kara River]] (east, Kara Sea).

The areas around Pay-Khoy do not have permanent population. The closest permanent settlements are [[Amderma]] and [[Ust-Kara, Nenets Autonomous Okrug|Ust-Kara]]. The ridge is located in [[tundra]], to the north of the tree line.

==Geology==
The Pay-Khoy ridge forms a curved orogen together with the [[Ural Mountains]], the [[Vaygach Island]] and the [[Novaya Zemlya]] archipelago. The Pay-Khoy and Novaya Zemlya are younger than the orogeny that formed the Ural mountains. They were formed during the [[Cimmerian Orogeny]] between the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic.<ref name="Lindquist 1999">{{cite book|last=Lindquist|first=Sandra  J.|title=The Timan-Pechora Basin Province of Northwest Arctic Russia:  Domanik – Paleozoic Total Petroleum System|year=1999|publisher=U. S. Geological Survey|pages=40|url=http://www.arcticdatabase.com/pdf/references/timan_pechora.pdf|accessdate=13 October 2012}}</ref>

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[[Category:Mountain ranges of Russia]]
[[Category:Landforms of Nenets Autonomous Okrug|.]]
[[Category:Ural Mountains]]