- The Ural Mountains or simply called the Urals, are among the world's oldest known mountain peaks.
- The more humid western foothills of the Southern Urals are covered mostly by mixed forests growing on a gray mountain-forest type of soil.
- From Moscow by plane you fly in just 3 hours, by train - just over a day. The main Ural city is Yekaterinburg. It is located in the Middle Urals, so the low mountains...
- From the north to the south, the mountains touch different climatic zones. In the TUNDRA of the polar Urals (Poliarnyi Ural) the winter lasts nearly seven months.
- In the South Urals, in Chelyabinsk Region, stands Mount Karandash. It is not very tall - only 610 meters, but the Ural locals consider it to be the oldest on Earth.
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- There are many legends about the Urals; one of the most famous concerns the Lady of Copper Mountain.
- Illustrating the ranges of the Ural Mountains (Southern Urals, Central Urals, Northern Urals, Nether-Polar Urals, Polar Urals, and the major rivers in the...
- Many maps continue to show the Urals as the natural division of the two continents, although not all geographers accept the mountains as the boundary mark.
- This satellite photo shows the random location of the Ural Mountains, and helps to explain different regions landscapes, the Polar North and southern Urals have...