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The Central Russian Upland (also: Middle Russian Upland (Russian: Среднерусская возвышенность, romanized: Srednerusskaya vozvyshennost') and East European Upland) is an upland area of the East European Plain and is an undulating plateau with an average elevation of 230–250 m (750–820 ft). Its highest peak is ...
Central Russian Upland: Unnamed — 274.2 metres (900 ft) Tomsk Oblast: Slight elevation in the West Siberian Plain: Unnamed — 271.4 metres (890 ft) Vladimir Oblast: Klinsk-Dmitrov Ridge, Moscow Upland: Unnamed — 268 metres (879 ft) Voronezh Oblast: Elevation at the Kursk Oblast border, Central Russian Upland: Unnamed — 260.6 metres (855 ...
It includes Volhynian-Podolian Upland on its westernmost fringe, the Central Russian Upland, and, on the eastern border, encompasses the Volga Upland. The plain includes also a series of major river basins such as the Dnieper Lowland, the Oka–Don Lowland, and the Volga Basin.
It may, for example, refer to European Russia (except the North Caucasus and Kaliningrad). [citation needed] The 1967 book by Stephen P. Dunn and Ethel Dunn The Peasants of Central Russia [1] defines the area as the territory from Novgorod Oblast to the north to the border with Ukraine in the south and from Smolensk Oblast to the west and Volga ...
The northernmost and easternmost points of Russia coincide with those of Eurasia (both for the mainland and including the islands). The extreme points of the Soviet Union were identical, except that the southernmost point of the Soviet Union was Kushka in Turkmenistan , and the extreme elevation was the Communism Peak in Tajikistan , at 7,495 ...
The 1,860-kilometre (1,160 mi) Don, which is the fifth-longest river in Europe, originates in the Central Russian Upland south of Moscow and then flows into the Sea of Azov at Rostov-on-Don.
Ten people were killed in central Russia after strong winds toppled trees and heavy rains disrupted the electricity supply in hundreds of settlements, Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations ...
Donets-Azov Upland Azov Upland: Donets Upland: Donets Ridge: Central Russian Upland: Central Russian Upland: Kalach Upland Oka–Don Lowland: Russian Plain: Ural Mountains: Northern Urals Central Urals Southern Urals Middle East Eastern Highlands: Zagros Mountains: Bitlis Mountains: Kopet-Dag Mountains: Elburz Mountains: Western Elburz Central ...