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The Ural Mountains (/ ... Map including the Ural Mountains. ... The Urals are among the world's oldest extant mountain ranges. Some have estimated the age to be 250 ...
Ural (Russian: Урал) is a geographical region located around the Ural Mountains, between the East European and West Siberian plains. It is considered a part of the Eurasian Steppe , extending approximately from the North to the South; from the Arctic Ocean to the end of the Ural River near Orsk city.
The Riphean Mountains referred to the Ural Mountains. The Ural was considered the boundary between two worlds: civilized Europe and distant, "mysterious" Asia; where the world's civilizations converge: Eurasia. [clarification needed] By the early Common Era, great Migrations of nomads from the east – Huns, Avars, Slavs, and Bulgars.
The Urals montane tundra and taiga ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0610) covers the main ridge of the Ural Mountains (both sides) - a 2,000 km (north-south) by 300 km (west-east) region. The region is on the divide between European and Asian ecoregions, and also the meeting point of tundra and taiga.
The Ural Mountains — a major mountain range of eastern European Russia, Siberia, and northwestern Kazakhstan. Pages in category "Ural Mountains" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
Highest mountain in Adygea Tabozhok [56] Табожок 3201 m 10,502 ft: 633 m 2,077 ft: 22.4 km 13.92 mi Kuray Mountains Altai Mountains Altai Republic: Gaykomd [57] Гайкомд 3152 m 10,341 ft: 1231 m 4,039 ft: 9.8 km 6.09 mi
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Flood waters were rising in two cities in Russia's Ural mountains on Sunday after Europe's third-longest river burst through a dam, flooding at least 10,000 homes and forcing ...
Other notable peaks lie along the Iremel mountain ridge (Bolshoy Iremel and Maly Iremel), the Nurgush, highest point 1,406 m (4,613 ft), and the Nakas, highest point 667.6 m (2,190 ft). [1] The Southern Urals extend some 550 km (340 mi) up to the sharp westward bend of the Ural River and terminate in the wide Mugodzhar Hills. The foothills of ...