The Altai Mountains are a mountain range in East-Central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together - the original locus of the speakers of Turkic[1] as well as other members of the proposed Altaic language group.In Turkic and Mongolic languages, the name, Altai, means the "Golden Mountain."This region is studded with large lakes, e.g. Uvs 720 m above sea level, Khyargas, Dorgon and Khar 1,170 m, and traversed by various mountain ranges, of which the principal are the Tannu-Ola Mountains, running roughly parallel with the Sayan Mountains as far east as the Kosso-gol, and the Khan Khökhii mountains, also stretching west and east.The highest summit of the range, the double-headed Belukha, whose summits reach 4,506 and 4,440 m respectively.