• How the Urals appeared. The Ural Mountains stretch in a narrow strip for more than 2000 km from the Kara Sea to the steppes of the Aral Sea region.
  • Continental collisions gave rise to the Urals between 250 and 300 million years ago, making them among the oldest mountains on Earth.
  • Due to an extensive railway system of the region, the Ural mountains have good transport accessibility, which in Soviet times made them popular.
  • The Ural Mountains or simply the Urals, is a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through Russia...
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  • The southern Urals is considered part of the Ural mountain country of the Ural River in the south to the river to the north of Ufa.
  • 3. How tall are the Ural Mountains? The highest peak in the Urals is Mount Narodnaya at 1,850 meters tall.
  • ...Ural Mountains consist of 5 sections (the southern, middle, northern, pre-polar and polar regions) - Elevation: 1895m - Extends 2500 km from Ural river - The Urals...
  • In the north, intensive weathering has resulted in vast “seas of stone” on mountain slopes and summits. The lower Central Urals, extending more than 200 miles...
  • Ural mountains. The Urals also served as a military complex for Peter the Great as he waged war with Sweden.