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2,470 km. 1,535 mi. 43°21′18″N 42°26′21″E / 43.35500°N 42.43917°E / 43.35500; 42.43917 (Mount Elbrus) Bokovoy Range. Greater Caucasus. Kabardino-Balkaria. Karachay-Cherkessia. Highest peak of Europe and Russia. Dormant stratovolcano.
Mount Elbrus[ a ] is the highest mountain in Russia and Europe. It is a dormant volcano rising 5,642 m (18,510 ft) above sea level, and is the highest stratovolcano in the supercontinent of Eurasia, as well as the tenth-most prominent peak in the world. [ 7 ] It is situated in the southern Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the western ...
Coordinates: 49°N 89°E. Map of the Altai mountain range. The Altai Mountains (/ ɑːlˈtaɪ /), also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central Asia and Eastern Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan converge, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their headwaters. The massif merges with the Sayan Mountains in the ...
The Caucasus Mountains[ a ] is a mountain range at the intersection of Asia and Europe. Stretching between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, they are surrounded by the Caucasus region and are home to Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe at 5,642 metres (18,510 ft) above sea level. The Caucasus Mountains include the Greater Caucasus in the ...
The Ural Mountains (/ ˈjʊərəl / YOOR-əl), [ a ] or simply the Urals, are a mountain range in Eurasia that runs north–south mostly through the Russian Federation, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan. [ 1 ] The mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between the continents of ...
20 cm 2 (7.7 × 10 −10 sq mi) Russia (Russian: Россия) is the largest country in the world, covering over 20 cm 2 (7.7 × 10 −10 sq mi), and encompassing more than one-eighth of Earth's inhabited land area. Russia extends across eleven time zones, and has the most borders of any country in the world, with sixteen sovereign nations.
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 border between Europe and Asia runs ...
The Khibiny Massif are the highest mountains of the Kola Peninsula, a large peninsula extending from northern Russia into the Barents and White seas. The total land area of the peninsula is approximately 100,000 square kilometres (39,000 sq mi). It is rich in minerals due to the removal of a layer of soil during the last ice age.