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Topographic map of Russia The Great Russian Regions are eight geomorphological regions of the Russian Federation displaying characteristic forms of relief. Seven of them are parts of Siberia , located east of the Ural Mountains .
Map of countries coloured according to their highest point The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid , a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
Most of Northwest Russia and Siberia has a subarctic climate, with extremely severe winters in the inner regions of Northeast Siberia (mostly Sakha, where the Northern Pole of Cold is located with the record low temperature of −71.2 °C or −96.2 °F), [30] and more moderate winters elsewhere.
Central Siberian Plateau. Siberian Federal District. Lena. Sakha Republic. Laptev Sea. New Siberian Islands. Kolyma. Verkhoyansk Range. ... Physical map of Northern Asia
It is located in the Siberian Platform and extends over an area of 3,500,000 km 2 (1,400,000 sq mi), between the Yenisei in the west and the Central Yakutian Lowland in the east. To the south it is bound by the Altai Mountains , Salair Ridge , Kuznetsk Alatau , the Eastern and Western Sayan Mountains and other mountains of Tuva , as well as the ...
East Siberian Mountains Khabarovsk Krai Yakutia: Avachinsky [79] Авачинский 2741 m 8,993 ft: 1550 m 5,085 ft: 9.85 km 6.12 mi Kamchatka Peninsula Kamchatka Krai: Gora Chyon [80] Гора Чён 2690 m 8,825 ft: 1740 m 5,709 ft: 189.2 km
Coat of arms of Siberia, which was a part of the Russian Imperial Coat of Arms until 1917 Map of the Siberian Route in the 18th century (green) and the early 19th century (red) By the mid-17th century, Russia had established areas of control that extended to the Pacific Ocean. Some 230,000 Russians had settled in Siberia by 1709. [41]
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]