To the east, the Siberian Platform falls to the Middle Lena Basin(1), a lowland along the great bend in the river and nearby tributaries such as the Vilyuy. South of this basin are the Stanovoy(2) Mountains.
To the east of the platform are a series of mountains. The Lena Basin is separated eastward from the Sea of Okhotsk drainage by the Dzhugdzhur(3) Mountains running parallel to and near the sea. The Lena Basin further north is delimited eastward by the Verkhoyanskiy(4) Mountains, famous for their seasonal weather extremes. To their east is the Cherskiy(5) Mountains. Farthest northeast are the Chukotskiy Mountains(6) which dominate the peninsula of the same name.
Younger mountains, part of the circum-Pacific ring of mountains, are the Koryatskiy(7) and the Kamchatskiy Mountains(8), continued as the Kuril(9) Islands. The only peak over 4000 meters in the Far Eastern Federal District is Klyuchevskaya(10) Sopka Volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
In the southeast from west to east are the Tukuringra and the Bureinskiy(11) Mountains between the Amur River and the Stanovoys. Nestled against the Tukuringras is one of Asia's largest, and newest, lakes: the Zeysk(12) Reservoir on a tributary of the Amur. The lower course of the Amur, plus a tributary along the international border, marks the Amur-Ussuri(13) Lowland, bounded east by the Sikhote-Alin' Mountains along the Sea of Japan. Separating that sea from the Sea of Okhotsk is Sakhalin Island, Asia's tenth largest.
(1) Also called the Central Yakut (Yakutskaya or Yakutskaja) Basin.
(2) Also transliterated from Russian as Stanavoj.
(3) Also transliterated from Russian as Dzugdzur.
(4) Also transliterated from Russian as Verchojanskij.
(5) Also transliterated from Russian as Cerskogo, with a diacritical on the c.
(6) Also transliterated from Russian as Cukotskij, with a diacritical on the c, and also known as the Anadyr' Mountains.
(7) Also transliterated from Russian as Kor'akskij.
(8) Also called the Sredinnyy or Stredinnj Mountains.
(9) Transliterated from Russian as Kuril'skije or Kuril'skiye.
(10) Also transliterated from Russian as Kl'uceskaja, with a diacritical on the c.
(11) Also transliterated from Russian as Bureinskij.
(12) Also transliterated from Russian as Zejsk.
(13) Also known as Wusuli.