- Wind and weather, heat and frost worked on the Ural Mountains for millions of years, wearing them down and laying bare their incalculable wealth.
- The Ural Mountains extend for 1,500 miles in a north-south direction, from the Arctic Ocean to near the Aral Sea.
- 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.
- With a length of more than 2000 km, the Ural Mountains form the Southern, Northern, Subpolar, Polar and Middle Urals.
- Overview: The Ural Mountains or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that form a natural boundary between Europe and Asia.
- As we said, the highest peak is Mount Narodnaya at 1895 meters, with some glaciers on top. The Ural Mountains are divided into five sectors: The Arctic Urals...
- The Ural Mountains are a long, low mountain range considered the natural border between Europe and Asia, although in practice it does not constitute a real...
- How did the Ural Mountains form? As the old continents drifted together to form Pangaea, the western Siberia plate smashed into the Baltica and North America plate.
- The Ural Mountains stretch for almost 2,400 km in a north-south direction through the middle west of Russia and represent the border between Europe and Asia.
- Continental collisions gave rise to the Urals between 250 and 300 million years ago, making them among the oldest mountains on Earth.