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Also known as: The Urals, Uralskie Gory, Uralskie Mountains
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Yevgeny V. Yastrebov
Former Professor of Geography, Moscow Oblast Pedagogical Institute. Author of How the Urals Have Been Discovered and others.
Yevgeny V. Yastrebov,
Thomas M. Poulsen
Emeritus Professor of Geography, Portland State University, Oregon. Author of Nations and States: A Geographic Background to World Affairs.
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Ural Mountains, mountain range forming a rugged spine in west-central Russia and the major part of the traditional physiographic boundary between Europe and Asia. Extending some 1,550 miles (2,500 km) from the bend of the Ural River in the south to the low, severely eroded Pay-Khoy Ridge, which forms a 250-mile (400-km) fingerlike extension to the northern tip of the Urals proper, the mountains constitute the major portion of the Uralian orogenic belt, which stretches 2,175 miles (3,500 km) from the Aral Sea to the northernmost tip of Novaya Zemlya. The Mughalzhar Hills, themselves part of the Uralian orogenic belt, ...(100 of 2966 words)

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