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The paper discusses the conditions for the existence of the Chukchi Highlands glaciers, according to climate data, satellite imagery and our own field observations. The areas of glaciers are defined for periods from the beginning of the 1980s to 2005 and up to 2017 according to various satellite images and data from the catalog of R.V Sedov, the investigator of these glaciers in 1980-s. Glacial objects of the basin of the left bank of the Amguema River, Gulf of the Cross and Lawrence Bay reduced most since 1980-s Also the paper presents new studies of the glaciers of the Verkhneangarsky Range, which were discovered in 2017–18. The Verkhneangarsky glacial group unites glacial formations of the morphological type —corrie; in size they belong to small forms of glaciation. During field studies 2017-2018 four glacial formations have been found, measured and described, as well as several perennial snow patches and rock glaciers.