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Highest peak of Europe and Russia Dormant stratovolcano: Dykh-Tau [2] Дыхтау 5205 m 17,077 ft: 2002 m 6,568 ft: 63.4 km 39.4 mi Bokovoy Range Greater Caucasus Kabardino-Balkaria: Second highest peak of Russia Koshtan-Tau [3] Коштантау 5152 m 16,903 ft
The region includes the Yana-Indigirka, Kolyma and Aby lowlands, as well as the New Siberian Islands. Area about 1,100,000 km 2 (420,000 sq mi). [4] East Siberian Mountains, a large mountainous area located in northeastern Siberia. It includes two large mountain systems, the Verkhoyansk Range and the Chersky Range, as well as
Forty of Russia's rivers longer than 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) are east of the Ural Mountains, including the three major rivers that drain Siberia as they flow northward to the Arctic Ocean: the Irtysh-Ob system (totaling 5,380 kilometres or 3,340 miles), the Yenisey (5,075 kilometres or 3,153 miles), and the Lena (4,294 kilometres or 2,668 ...
Some historians believe that the Altai mountain region may have been the location where skiing was born, however this remains disputed. Evidence to support the claims includes several cave petroglyphs within the Altai Mountains in modern China that depict human figures on skis that are chasing after an ibex. According to a study published by ...
Sayan Mountains: Pik Martena: Пик Мартена 2,988 metres (9,803 ft) Irkutsk Oblast: Kodar Range, Stanovoy Highlands [2] [3] [4] Berill: Берилл 2,934 metres (9,626 ft) Khabarovsk Krai: Suntar-Khayata Range: Grandiozny Peak: Пик Грандиозный 2,891 metres (9,485 ft) Krasnoyarsk Krai: Kryzhin Range, Eastern Sayan, Sayan ...
A topographic map of Russia with regions labeled. The geology of Russia, the world's largest country, which extends over much of northern Eurasia, consists of several stable cratons and sedimentary platforms bounded by orogenic (mountain) belts. European Russia is on the East European craton, at the heart of which is a complex of igneous and ...
The area of the East Siberian Mountains has a very low population density. [1] The territory of the mountain system is one of the Great Russian Regions. In some areas of the East Siberian Mountains, such as the Kisilyakh Range and the Oymyakon Plateau there are kigilyakhs, the rock formations that are highly valued in the culture of the Yakuts. [2]
The Volga flows through the East European north-western regions to the Central Asian south-western steppe regions in Povolzhyen Russia. Volga delta in Central Asia The Volga Region is almost entirely within the East European Plain , with a notable distinction contrasting the elevated western side featuring the Volga Upland , and the eastern ...