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  2. Ural Mountains - Wikipedia

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    Ural Mountains in summer. The Nether-Polar Ural are higher, and up to 150 km (93 mi) wider than the Polar Urals. They include the highest peaks of the range: Mount Narodnaya (1,895 m (6,217 ft)), Mount Karpinsky (1,878 m (6,161 ft)) and Manaraga (1,662 m (5,453 ft)). They extend for more than 225 km (140 mi) south to the Shchugor. The many ...

  3. Ural (region) - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Urals montane tundra and taiga - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Sub-Ural Plateau - Wikipedia

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    Topography of Ural Mountains. The Sub-Ural Plateau is to the west of the southernmost extent of Ural 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 .

  6. History of human settlement in the Ural Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Riphean Mountains referred to the Ural Mountains. The Ural was considered the boundary between two worlds: civilized Europe and distant, "mysterious" Asia; where the world's civilizations converge: Eurasia. [clarification needed] By the early Common Era, great Migrations of nomads from the east – Huns, Avars, Slavs, and Bulgars.

  7. Record flood waters rise in Russia's Urals, forcing thousands ...

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    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 ...

  8. Main Uralian Fault - Wikipedia

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    The Main Uralian Fault (MUF) runs north–south through the middle of the Ural Mountains for over 2,000 km. It separates both Europe from Asia and the three, or four, western megazones of the Urals from the three eastern megazones: namely the Pre-Uralian Foredeep, West Uralian, and the Central Uralian to the west, and the Tagil-Magnitogorskian, East Uralian, and Transuralian to the east.

  9. Floods grip Kazakhstan and Russia as tributaries of Ob rise - AOL

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    PETROPAVLOVSK, Kazakhstan (Reuters) -Swathes of northern Kazakhstan and Russia's Urals region were flooded on Monday as melt waters swelled the tributaries of the world's seventh longest river ...