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The Central Russian Upland (also Middle Russian Upland and East European Upland) is an upland area of the East European Plain and is an undulating plateau with an average elevation of 230–250 m (750–820 ft). Its highest peak is measured at 293 m (961 ft). The southeastern portion of the upland known as the Kalach Upland .
It includes Volhynian-Podolian Upland on its westernmost fringe, the Central Russian Upland, and, on the eastern border, encompasses the Volga Upland. The plain includes also a series of major river basins such as the Dnepr Basin, the Oka–Don Lowland, and the Volga Basin.
The Volga Region is almost entirely within the East European Plain, with a notable distinction contrasting the elevated western side featuring the Volga Upland, and the eastern side known as Transvolga (Russian: Заволжье, Zavolžje). The latter consists of the elevated High Transvolga and the lowland Low Transvolga.
The Volga Upland, also known as the Volga Uplands, Volga Hills, [2] or Volga Plateau (Russian: Приволжская возвышенность, romanized: Privolzhskaya vozvyshennost'), is a vast region of the East European Plain in the European part of Russia that lies west of the Volga River and east of the Central Russian Upland.
Central Russian Upland: Zaitseva Gora: Зайцева Гора 275 metres (902 ft) Kaluga Oblast: Central Russian Upland: Unnamed — 274.5 metres (901 ft) Kursk Oblast: Near Olkhovatka village, Central Russian Upland: Unnamed — 274.2 metres (900 ft) Tomsk Oblast: Slight elevation in the West Siberian Plain: Unnamed — 271.4 metres (890 ft)
Topographic map of Russia The Great Russian Regions are eight geomorphological regions of the Russian Federation displaying characteristic forms of relief. Seven of them are parts of Siberia , located east of the Ural Mountains .
The geology of Russia, the world's largest country, which extends over much of northern Eurasia, consists of several stable cratons and sedimentary platforms bounded by orogenic (mountain) belts. European Russia is on the East European craton , at the heart of which is a complex of igneous and metamorphic rocks dating back to the Precambrian .
Valdai Hills located in the north-west of central European Russia Valdai Hills at Lake Sitno. The Valdai Hills, [a] sometimes shortened to Valdai, [b] are an upland region in the north-west of central European Russia running north–south, about midway between Saint Petersburg and Moscow, spanning Leningrad, Novgorod, Tver, Pskov, and Smolensk Oblasts.