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Map including the Ural Mountains The Ural Mountains extend about 2,500 km (1,600 mi) from the Kara Sea to the Kazakh Steppe along the border of Kazakhstan. Vaygach Island and the island of Novaya Zemlya form a further continuation of the chain on the north.
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.
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
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, also known as the Yaik / ˈ j aɪ k /, [note 1] is a river flowing through Russia and Kazakhstan in the continental border between Europe and Asia.It originates in the southern Ural Mountains and discharges into the Caspian Sea.
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 ...
The Ural Mountains — a major mountain range of eastern European Russia, Siberia, and northwestern Kazakhstan. Pages in category "Ural Mountains" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.