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The East European Plain (also called the Russian Plain, [1] or historically the Sarmatic Plain) [2] is a vast interior plain extending east of the North European Plain, [3] and comprising several plateaus stretching roughly from 25 degrees longitude eastward.
Russia (Russian: Россия) is the largest country in the world, covering over 17,125,191 km 2 (6,612,073 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 .
The Volga Region is almost entirely within the East European Plain, with a notable distinction contrasting the elevated western side featuring the Volga Upland, and the eastern side known as Transvolga (Russian: Заволжье, Zavolžje). The latter consists of the elevated High Transvolga and the lowland Low Transvolga.
The Great European Plain is divided into the North European Plain (Central/Middle European Plain) and the East European Plain. The subdivision is a historical one, rather than geomorphological: the Russian portion of the East European Plain is also known as the Russian Plain which covers almost all of European Russia.
The Central Russian Upland (also Middle Russian Upland 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 measured at 293 m (961 ft).
West Siberian Plain (4 C, 51 P) Pages in category "Plains of Russia" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... North Russian Plain; O. Oka–Don ...
North Russian Plain (Russian: Северо-русская низменность) is a plain, [1] occupying the geographical north and north-east of the Russian Plain.
In Asiatic Russia, the area between the Ural Mountains and the Yenisei River is the young West Siberian Plain. East of the Yenisei River is the ancient Central Siberian Plateau, extending to the Lena River. East of the Lena River there is the Verhoyansk-Chukotka collision zone, stretching to the Chukchi Peninsula.