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It is the highest point in European Russia outside the Caucasus. This leads to its large topographic prominence of 1,772 metres (5,814 ft). Narodnaya is located in the Ural mountains water divide , and therefore on the border between Europe and Asia : the Naroda river flows south-east from the summit into the Ob river in Siberia , and the Kos ...
Mount Payer (Russian: Пайер) is a peak in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is the highest point of the okrug and of the Polar Urals, as well as one of the highest of the wider Ural mountain system. [1] The name of the mountain originated in the Nenets language "pai/er" (пай/ер), meaning "rock/master". [3] [4]
The highest peak of the Ural, Mount Narodnaya, (elevation 1,895 m [6,217 ft]) was identified in 1927. [16] Wooded Ural Mountains. During the Soviet industrialization in the 1930s, the city of Magnitogorsk was founded in the South-Eastern Ural as a center of iron smelting and steelmaking.
The predominant elevations of the ridges range between 800 metres (2,600 ft) and 1,200 metres (3,900 ft), with individual peaks rising slightly higher. The highest peak is 1,472 metres (4,829 ft) high Payer Mountain, located in the middle part. [2] The mountains display traces of massive ancient glaciation in U-shaped valleys, cirques and moraines.
Kachkanar (Russian: Качкана́р), is the highest peak of the Central Ural in Sverdlovsk Oblast, located near the geographical Europe-Asia border. [1] Its altitude is 878.7 metres above sea level, with a relative elevation of about 600 metres. [2] It is part of the mountain massif of the same name located on the right bank of the Is river ...
Mount Yamantau, or Yamantaw (Bashkir: Ямантау, romanized: Yamantaw, Russian: гора Ямантау) is a mountain in the Ural Mountains, located in Beloretsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. Standing at 1,640 metres (5,380 ft), it is the highest mountain in the Southern Ural section, and lies is within the South Ural Nature Reserve.
There are 14 mountains over 8,000 metres (26,247 ft), which are often referred to as the Eight-thousanders. (Some people have claimed there are six more 8,000m peaks in Nepal, making for a total of 20. [1])
It is located 16.5 km west of Mount Narodnaya, the highest peak in the Ural mountains. [4] The slopes of the peak are gentle and grassy, but the summit is jagged and rocky. Manaraga translated from Nenets means "Bear Paw". [3]