The Ural Mountains are a great highland stretched between the East European and Western-Siberian plains. Very often they are called a stone belt of the Russian land. The mountains  (BE) not as high as the Altai Mountains or the Caucasus (the  (HIGH) mountain, Nagornaya, is only 1,894 metres high.). But  (THEY) look is very picturesque. Some of them look like ruins of ancient  (CASTLE) or like fairy-tale animals or giants.