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Wrangel Island (Russian: О́стров Вра́нгеля, romanized: Ostrov Vrangelya, IPA: [ˈostrəf ˈvrangʲɪlʲə]; Chukot: Умӄиԓир, romanized: Umqiḷir, IPA:, lit. ' island of polar bears ') [1] is an island of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is the 92nd largest island in the world and roughly the size of Crete.
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.
In 1965, a farmer dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth while in the process of expanding his cellar. Further excavations revealed the presence of 4 huts , made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings, dating back some 15,000 years, were determined to have been shelters known to have been constructed by pre-historic man , usually ...
Researchers in Russia on Monday unveiled the remarkably well-preserved remains of a 50,000-year-old female baby mammoth found in thawing permafrost in the Yakutia region of Siberia.. The remains ...
The terrain is a flat plain that covers the northern tip of Gyda Peninsula, which marks the right side of the Ob River delta, where the river enters the Kara Sea. It also includes the Yapay Peninsula (to the west), the northern part of the Mammoth peninsula, Deer Island, Shokalsky Island, Pestsovoye Island and others. The protected area ...
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 ...
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is the national animal of Russia. This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Russia. There are 266 mammal species in Russia, of which five are critically endangered, thirteen are endangered, twenty-six are vulnerable, and six are near threatened.
Britain’s Dan Evans outlasted Karen Khachanov in the longest match in US Open in history on Tuesday, holding off the Russian in a mammoth five-set epic which lasted for five hours and 35 minutes.