Lena Pillars

The Lena Pillars are a series of rock columns rising up to 100 metres from the right bank of the Lena River in Yakutia, formed by the freeze-thaw fracturing of Cambrian limestone over millions of years into a dense forest of vertical pillars and turrets. The formation extends for roughly 40 kilometres along the riverbank and is accessible primarily by boat from Yakutsk. The site is a UNESCO World Heritage property that also contains Cambrian-era fossil deposits and Pleistocene fauna remains including woolly rhinoceros and woolly mammoth.