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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 Ural Mountains (/ ˈ jʊər əl / 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 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.
Authorities in the region of Kurgan in Russia's Urals mountains ordered an evacuation from several districts on Saturday due to rising river levels, after large snowfalls melted and heavy rain ...
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 ...
More than 10,400 homes across Russia have been flooded, with the Urals, Siberia, the Volga and central regions the worst hit. The Ural River rises in the Ural Mountains and flows into the Caspian Sea.
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.
The Sub-Ural Plateau (Russian: Подуральское плато, romanized: Poduralskoe Plato) is a low-elevation mountainous plateau mostly in west Kazakhstan and some northern parts are in Russia. It is also known as the Cis-Ural Plateau (Russian: Предуральское плато, romanized: Preduralskoe Plato).