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The sediments to the west of the Ural Mountains are formed of limestone, dolomite and sandstone left from ancient shallow seas. The eastern side is dominated by basalts. [6] Wooded Ural Mountains in winter. The western slope of the Ural Mountains has predominantly karst topography, especially in the Sylva basin, which is a tributary of the ...
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.
Third highest peak of Russia Pik Pushkina [4] Пик Пушкина 5100 m 16,732 ft: 50 m 164 ft: 0.27 km 0.17 mi Bokovoy Range Greater Caucasus Kabardino-Balkaria: Located in the mountain massif of Dykh-Tau Jangi-Tau [5] Джангитау 5085 m
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 ...
Mount Narodnaya (also known as Naroda and Poenurr; Russian: гора Народная, Komi: Народа-Из ("People's Mountain" [2]), Mansi: Поэӈ-ур, Поэн-урр) is the highest peak of the Urals in Russia. Its elevation is 1,894 metres (6,214 ft).
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.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has evacuated around 2,000 people from their homes in the Russian city of Orsk, Russian officials said on Saturday, a day after rising waters in the Ural river flooded ...
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.