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  2. Ural Mountains - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  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. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Mount Yamantau - Wikipedia

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    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.

  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. Head of Russian region denounces 'traitors' after rare protest

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    The clashes took place in a small town in Bashkortostan, a republic of 4.1 million people in the Urals Mountains, where a leading rights activist was sentenced on Wednesday to four years in a ...

  9. Mount Narodnaya - Wikipedia

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    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).