Participants: Vitaly Lezhnev, Vasily Ryabinin Type of tourism: moto (snowmobiles) Distance: 600 km Duration: 7 hours Dates: April 24-30, 2016

Lake Bogatyr is the highest of the large Putorana lakes, its level is 995 m above sea level.

• Length: 9 km
• Width: about 1.5 km
• Surface area: 9.1 sq. km
• Depth: more than 80 m

On the northern shore of the lake rise sheer slopes of the highest point of Western Putorana - Bogatyr massif (1600 m).

Lake Neralakh lies 8 km to the south, at an altitude of 919 m above sea level, and is 13 km long. The surface area is 16.5 km², the depth is about 30 m. The lake is of a dammed type.

The lakes lie in the very center of the watershed massif, separating the basin of Bolshoy Khonnamakit from the basin of Kaltama. This massif consists of two ridges stretching from northwest from the peak 1540 m (in the upper reaches of Nerakachi-Kaltama and South Nerakachi, a tributary of Bolshoy Khonnamakit) to the southeast to the Ayan gorge. The peaks of these ridges have heights of 1300-1500 m, gently sloping down to the south to the valley of South Nerakachi and upper Khonnamakit and more steeply dropping to the north, to the lakes:

• Bogatyr-Khuolu,
• Dulu-Ikon,
• Negu-Ikon

and vast tundra spaces of the Kaltama basin. Lakes Bogatyr and Neralakh are enclosed between these two ridges, and the river Bogatyr-Khuolu, flowing out of them, breaks through the northern ridge 10 km below the source, forming a shallow gorge. The lakes are freed from ice by mid-August, so movement on them is not always possible.

The entire area around the lakes and the Bogatyr mountain massif is strikingly different from the surrounding tundra spaces. There are many:

• glaciers,
• rocky cliffs,
• stone taluses.

Among the vegetation, there are stunted tundra sedges and lichens.