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The plant was one of the largest in the Ural Mountains and stimulated development of mining plants in Orenburg Oblast. It ceased operating in 1902. It ceased operating in 1902. Today, the complex is the best preserved example of a copper smelting plant, with 12 remaining objects, including industrial buildings, a church, a hospital, and warehouses.
Ural Mountains in summer. The Nether-Polar Ural are higher, and up to 150 km (93 mi) wider than the Polar Urals. They include the highest peaks of the range: Mount Narodnaya (1,895 m (6,217 ft)), Mount Karpinsky (1,878 m (6,161 ft)) and Manaraga (1,662 m (5,453 ft)). They extend for more than 225 km (140 mi) south to the Shchugor. The many ...
Manaraga River near Mount Manaraga. The Yugyd Va National Park is located on the western slopes of the Polar Ural and Northern Ural, on the border of Europe and Asia.The rivers flowing from the western slope of the Ural Mountains, such as the Bolshaya Synya supply water to the Pechora River, one of the largest rivers in Europe flowing into the Barents Sea.
Boundaries of Bashkiriya National Park, at southwestern end of Ural Mountains. Size of the park is about 30 km north to south. The park rises from flatlands in the west, into medium-height Karst (limestone) uplands to the east. The northern boundary is along the Nugush River (in Turkic, "clean, bright"), which flows through deep wooded valleys ...
The Ural Mountains, the area that is the least studied but has the greatest variety of landscapes. It includes the piedmont forest belt (fir and spruce), up to 300–350 meters in elevation. Above it, up to 600 m elevation, is the subalpine forest belt, where firs and spruces are gradually replaced with birch forests and subalpine meadows.
Blagodat mountain is located on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains near the town of Kushva in the municipal formation Kushva Urban District in Sverdlovsk Oblast.In the XVIII — early XX centuries it was the world's largest deposit of magnetic ironstone.
This ecoregion covers the Ural Mountains in a band that is narrow from west-east, but runs up most of the divide between European and Asiatic Russia. It is a meeting zones of taiga and tundra tree and plant species. [3] The climate of the South Ural Reserve is Humid continental climate, warm summer (Köppen climate classification). This climate ...
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 ...