Ural mountains. The highest mountains and peaks of the Urals

Peak Narodnaya

The most high point of the Ural Mountains - this is Narodnaya Peak. It stretches upward for as much as 1895m. It is located in a very inaccessible place. But it is from her that the indescribable view and nature of the Ural mountains unfolds.

Mount Narodnaya is considered the most beautiful place in the Urals, and is also a historical monument. Among the known versions of the origin of its name, there is one that it is named in commemoration of the great Soviet people. The second explanation says that the mountain got its name from the river that flows at the foot of the mountains. Today, most people call this mountain Narodnaya, with the emphasis on the initial syllable. "Narodnaya" from the translation of the Mansi language means "forest". In reality, the mountain begins somewhere deep in the forest. Because the highest point of the Ural Mountains is located in an extremely difficult to reach area, its historical origin has not yet been studied.

The first expedition route up the mountain

The first expedition route was directed to the mountain in 1843, but before that many knew about the mountain. At the head of the expedition was the then famous scientist Antal Reguli, who once came to this area to study the life and life of such a people as the Mansi. Although the travelers never reached the mountain. But Mount Narodnaya was first explored and described in 1927. Then the Ural Mountains were studied by the North Ural Expedition of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Ural Plan, which was headed by Professor B. N. Gorodkov. The expeditionary campaign consisted of small detachments. Interestingly, before this trip it was said that the highest point Ural mountains there was Mount Telpoz-iz (along with it, Mount Saber fought for the championship in height). However, the detachment, which was headed by a post-graduate geologist A.N. Aleshkov during the 1927 campaign, assured that more high mountains The Urals are located in the polar part. Therefore, Aleshkov gave the mountain the name Narodnaya and for the first time in history measured the height, which was defined as 1870 meters.

Later, precise measurements were carried out, which showed that Aleshkov somewhat "underestimated" the height of the mountain. Today's sources say the mountain was 1,895 meters high. Perhaps, there are no more places where the Urals reaches such great heights, only on Mount Narodnaya. The slopes of this stately summit are dotted with punches - direct cup-shaped crevices that are filled with ice and the purest water... In addition, there are many boulders here. On your way you can come across snowfields and glaciers. The surface of this part of the Stone Belt is mountainous, with the deepest crevices and sheer cliffs. Tourists should be careful not to get serious damage while climbing the mountain. Moreover, the nearest settlement is very far away.

The ascent to Narodnaya Peak follows only along the western ridge, although it is full of rocky steeps and many depressions, which makes the hike much more difficult. It will be easier to climb north slope- along the foothills. And from the east, the summit is completely covered with sheer rocks and crevices. This mountain appeared among the important tourist attractions in 1950. Naturally, it is not known as, for example, the Caucasian mountains, but even here there are plates with marks of visitors to these places, namely tourists.

Crusade

A religious procession was once organized on Narodnaya Street. A worship cross was installed on it, and the believers carved the words: "Save and Preserve." The specific feature of the mountain from the neighboring mountains is considered not so high as the dark rock, of which it consists. On the slopes of the mountain, there are many crevices that are filled with water and ice. Equipment for climbers to climb the highest point of the Ural Mountains is not required. But, at the same time, to implement tourist route in this wild and mountainous territory it is necessary to have excellent sports form, and if there is not enough tourist experience, then it is worth resorting to the services of experienced guides to the mountains.

It should also be noted that the climate is very harsh in the Subpolar Urals. It happens that in summer time the weather is cold and changeable. Quite a suitable period for climbing the mountain - from the first days of July to mid-August. The ascent will take about a week. There is no accommodation here, so overnight stays should be made only in tourist tents... By territorial location Mountain Narodnaya is included in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. It is really worth a visit here, as unprecedented beauty opens up, and there is an opportunity to breathe in the purest mountain air.

Panorama from the mountain

The highest point of the Ural mountains provides tourists with an indescribable panorama - the chaos of the mountains, a harsh, majestic and formidable land. Being at the very top of the peak, people understand that nothing changes here, remains the same, for a long period of time. This is where time stops.

In order to understand all the beauty of the mountain, you just need to see unique pictures of this area or visit there. This is what will reflect the mystery and attractiveness of this place. It will allow you to delve into the nature of the Urals and its originality.

Inta station, 4 am, light. Polar day. We are sitting with Natasha on our backpacks, looking around, the guys went to look for a shift crew that will take us to the point of casting.

From here begins our ascent to Mount Narodnaya. This is the highest point of the Urals - 1885 m. It is located in the Subpolar Urals, on the territory national park“Yugyd Va”. By the way, to visit the park you need a permit with a prescribed route and stopping points, we issued it via the Internet :) We, somewhat risky, go without an instructor, testing our strength and knowledge. So I'm worried :) The driver did not disappoint, the shift was full, mostly tourists, many went to the Zhelannoye camp site. And our final point is Lake Bolshiye Balabanty. We still have two days of walking from the lake to Narodnaya.

The most difficult part of the hike was the route to the mountain and back: overnight wildlife, the heaviness of backpacks, mosquitoes, strong winds... The ascent was not difficult, climbing equipment is not required, the weather was lucky, the main thing is to walk on the slope on the rocks, and not on the moss, otherwise you can fall into the crack.

The most vivid impression the traversed route was at the top :))


How to Prepare?

  • a large number of mosquitoes, repellents do not help, so you need to take gloves and a mosquito net with you;
  • it is better to go from July to August, the warmest time, in winter you can only go on skis;
  • changeable weather, warm clothes should be with you;
  • gps, paper maps and compass;
  • wild animals, including bears, so we had a supply of hand flares with us;
  • prepare for the fording of rivers and swamps;
  • be sure to obtain permission from the park administration;
  • be sure to take a gas burner, there is practically no firewood in the mountains, a tent and a sleeping bag.

Without multi-day experience hiking trips going to Narodnaya without an instructor is very dangerous!

P.S. If time and energy permits, I advise you to climb Manaraga. This mountain, located next to Narodnaya, impresses with the beauty of its peaked peaks.


Anyone who has been to the Urals at least once in his life remembers this land with special warmth. Beautiful nature, fast rivers, and of course, one of the beautiful places all over the world - the most high peak Ural Mountains. This place will be able to impress even travelers who have seen the world, because it is here that you can breathe in the cleanest air and see a stunning panorama. - this is the Narodnaya Mountain. It rises almost two kilometers above sea level, and is located in one of the most inaccessible areas. The height of the Narodnaya Mountain is 1895 m.


The highest mountain in the Urals Is not only one of the most beautiful places, but also historical monument... The most popular version of the formation of its name suggests that the mountain was named after the great Soviet people. Another version tells that the peak got its name from the river that flows at its foot. Nowadays it is customary to call this mountain Narodnaya, putting an emphasis on the first syllable. Due to the fact that the highest mountain in the Urals is located in a very inaccessible area, its history has not yet been fully understood. The very first expedition was sent here only in 1843, although this place was known for a long time. At the head of this detachment was the famous scientist Antal Reguli, who came here to study the life and life of the Mansi. However, the expedition never reached the mountain itself. Narodnaya was able to be investigated only in 1927 by our Russian scientists. And it was then that they not only thoroughly studied it, but also measured the height.

Ural mountains photo

This mountain became one of the main tourist attractions in 1950. Of course, it is not as famous as the highest mountain of the Caucasus, but here you can also find signs and signs about visiting the place big amount tourists. A religious procession was even organized on Narodnaya Street. I found my place here and a worship cross, on which the believers carved the inscription: "Save and Preserve." Distinctive feature mountains from "neighbors" is not only high altitude but also the dark breed of which it is composed. On its slopes, you can find many depressions that are filled with water and ice. The relief is very steep, with deep gorges and many slopes. Therefore, you need to be very careful when climbing to the top, in order not to fall and not get serious injury.

To understand how beautiful and mysterious the highest point of the Urals is, one can not only climb to its top. It is enough just to look at the unique photographs that fully reflect all the mystery and attractiveness of this place, and you can completely immerse yourself in the extraordinary Ural nature and originality.

Mount Narodnaya is the highest point of the Ural Mountains. Its height is 1895 meters. This geographical fact was established relatively recently.

Due to the inaccessibility of the Subpolar region, few scientific expeditions were made to Mount Narodnaya.

V different times The highest peaks of the Stone Belt of Eurasia were called the mountains: Sablyu (1497 meters), Telpos-Iz (1617 meters), Manaraga (1660 meters). In 1924-1928, the Severouralsk complex expedition worked here under the leadership of B.N. Gorodkov. One of her detachments, led by A.N. Alyoshkov, in 1927, for the first time went to the upper reaches of the Národa River. Having investigated the height of the mountain using scientific methods already available at that time, they determined its height at 1870 meters (at present, it is measured more precisely - 1895 meters).

It was Alyoshkov who gave it the name, and on which syllable the emphasis should fall in it, he did not document anywhere. Disputes over stress continued until the publication of a textbook for pedagogical universities by F.N. Malkova and N.A. Gvozdetsky in 1963, in which the emphasis was on the first syllable. Since then, this option is considered correct, formed from the name of the river starting at the foot of the peak. Although, according to Gorodkov, who spoke out after the death of Alyoshkov, she was named after the Russian people, as was customary at that time.

The Ural ridges were formed in the Paleozoic era during the Hercynian folding, later they experienced renewal, and their crystalline rocks came to the surface. They are composed of metamorphic, sedimentary and volcanic rocks, very rich in various minerals and rocks... They form flat-topped ridges with gentle stepped western and steep steep eastern slopes.

Národnaya (Mansiysk “Naroda-Iz”) on the map of the Urals is located in the Research Ridge of the Subpolar Urals, on the border of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug and the Komi Republic, its coordinates are 65 ° N, 60 ° E. It consists of metamorphic schists and ancient quartzites.

Its top is rounded and double-headed, and the slopes of the mountain are covered with natural depressions - carats filled with water, glaciers, snowfields, rocky outcrops, mountain tundra, stone breaks.

Since the time when Narodnaya became a place of pilgrimage for tourists, objects such as "Vasya was here" appeared here - a bust of Lenin, tablets, memorial signs, a pyramid in which arrivals leave their notes, a worship cross with the words "Save and save" written on it, installed on a saddle between two mountain peaks in 1998. The eastern slope of the peak, like the entire Urals, is steep and impassable for tourists. The ascent is carried out along the western slope, which is complicated by karas, and along the more convenient northern one.

The peaks offer a view of the surrounding highest peaks of the Subpolar Urals - Sablya, Manaraga, etc. The harsh climate of the Subpolar highest peaks The stone belt of Russia, forms here a diverse and rich animal and vegetable world... Here you can find coniferous and mixed forests, subalpine and alpine meadows, alpine and arctic tundra. In the warm season, numerous mosquitoes, gadflies, horseflies and smaller blood-sucking insects - biting midges, midges appear here.

Dwarf birches, blueberries, wild rosemary, blueberries, shorty larch are replaced by grasses in the height of a person, which is occasionally pink radiola. Of the animals, there are many inhabitants of the tundra - polar foxes, deer, partridges, wolves. There are badgers, bears, chipmunks. There are only two types of grayling in mountain rivers. In the lower reaches of the mountains, river fish are somewhat more abundant.

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Mount Narodnaya is the highest point of the Ural Mountains. Its height is 1895 meters. This geographical fact was established relatively recently. Due to the inaccessibility of the Subpolar region, few scientific expeditions were made to Mount Narodnaya.

At different times, the highest peaks of the Stone Belt of Eurasia were called the mountains: Sablya (1497 meters), Telpos-Iz (1617 meters), Manaragu (1660 meters). In 1924-1928, the Severouralsk complex expedition worked here under the leadership of B.N. Gorodkov. One of her detachments, led by A.N. Alyoshkov, in 1927, for the first time went to the upper reaches of the Národa River. Having investigated the height of the mountain using the scientific methods already available at that time, they determined its height at 1870 meters (at present it is measured more precisely - 1895 meters).

It was Alyoshkov who gave it the name, and on which syllable the emphasis should fall in it, he did not document anywhere. Disputes over stress continued until the publication of a textbook for pedagogical universities by F.N. Malkova and N.A. Gvozdetsky in 1963, in which the emphasis was on the first syllable. Since then, this option is considered correct, formed from the name of the river starting at the foot of the peak. Although, according to Gorodkov, who spoke out after the death of Alyoshkov, she was named after the Russian people, as was customary at that time.

The Ural ridges were formed in the Paleozoic era during the period of the Hercynian folding, later they experienced renewal, and their crystalline rocks came to the surface. They are composed of metamorphic, sedimentary and volcanic rocks, very rich in various minerals and rocks. They form flat-topped ridges with gentle stepped western and steep steep eastern slopes.

Národnaya (Mansiysk “Naroda-Iz”) on the map of the Urals is located in the Research Ridge of the Subpolar Urals, on the border of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug and the Komi Republic, its coordinates are 65 ° N, 60 ° E. It consists of metamorphic schists and ancient quartzites. Its top is rounded and double-headed, and the slopes of the mountain are covered with natural depressions - kars filled with water, glaciers, snowfields, rocky outcrops, mountain tundra, stone breaks.

Since the time when Narodnaya became a place of pilgrimage for tourists, objects such as "Vasya was here" appeared here - a bust of Lenin, tablets, memorial signs, a pyramid in which arrivals leave their notes, a worship cross with the words "Save and save" written on it, installed on a saddle between two mountain peaks in 1998. The eastern slope of the peak, like the entire Urals, is steep and impassable for tourists.

The ascent is carried out along the western slope, which is complicated by karas, and along the more convenient northern one.

The peaks offer a view of the surrounding highest peaks of the Subpolar Urals - Sablya, Manaraga, etc.

The harsh climate of the Polar region, which for so long did not allow getting to these highest peaks of the Stone Belt of Russia, forms a diverse and rich flora and fauna here. Here you can find coniferous and mixed forests, subalpine and alpine meadows, alpine and arctic tundra. In the warm season, numerous mosquitoes, gadflies, horseflies and smaller blood-sucking insects - biting midges, midges appear here.

Dwarf birches, blueberries, wild rosemary, blueberries, shorty larch are replaced by grasses in the height of a person, which is occasionally pink radiola. Of the animals, there are many inhabitants of the tundra - polar foxes, deer, partridges, wolves. There are badgers, bears, chipmunks. There are only two types of grayling in mountain rivers. In the lower reaches of the mountains, river fish are somewhat more abundant.

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The highest mountain in the Ural Mountains. Geographical position Ural Mountains. The highest peak of the Ural Mountains

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From the swampy tundras of the Arctic, completely covered with cloudberries, to the feather grass steppes of Kazakhstan, for more than 2500 kilometers across the vast plains covered with taiga, a grandiose natural stone structure stretches - the Ural Mountains. On the map or from a bird's eye view, you can see how they expand by the curtains of parallel ridges, then narrow to a "narrow" strip (only 30 km), sometimes they are almost lost among the hills overgrown with century-old trees, and suddenly they soar up in fantastic masses dotted with scattering domes over the taiga sea. Ural ridge is a continuous series of various natural landscapes replacing each other.

Geography: Ural Mountains

It is customary to divide this stone massif with the adjacent territories into four parts: Polar, Subpolar, Middle and Southern Urals... Each of them has its own climatic conditions, its vegetation, its natural resources. If you look at the Ural Mountains on a map, you can see that they originate in the area of ​​the Baydaratskaya Bay of the Arctic Ocean. The first peak of the Polar Urals is Konstantinov Kamen, its height is only 492 meters. This part of the mountain range is located on the territory of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Komi Republic.

The Subpolar Urals originates from the Sablya massif and then stretches along the meridian of 59 ° N. NS. It consists of two parallel ridges. The territory of the Subpolar Urals ends with a rather high peak (1569 m), which is called Konzhakovsky Kamen. middle part this monumental natural structure lies between 56 and 59 degrees north latitude. The geographical position of the Ural Mountains also changes here. The meridional strike is replaced by the south-southeast direction. The last, fourth, part of the Ural massif originates from Mount Yurma and extends to the Ural River. The southern end of the ridge is the widest and reaches about 200 kilometers.

Poetic digression

These gray mountain ridges, smoothed by winds and time, today can no longer impress with either the steepness or the height of the slopes, but their severe majesty fills the air with the scent of eternity. Here, the intermontane valleys are home to a huge variety of crystal-clear springs and lakes of wonderful turquoise shades. From ancient peaks, emerald streams begin their distant run to large lakes and rivers - Pechora, Ob, Kama. The slopes are overgrown with shrubs and trees, which, under the piercing wind, convulsively cling to the cracks in the dilapidated rocks with their roots - a delicate and fragile beauty opens up to the traveler's eyes. The remnants of the virgin forest huddle up to the stern and gloomy stone guards, as if asking them for protection from a man who brings death to the wild.

Natural characteristics of the Southern and Middle Urals

The nature of the southern part of the Ural ridge is soft and friendly. Mixed taiga covers the slopes. Cozy river valleys are inhabited by the Bashkir people, who gave their names to most of the hills and rivers. Including the Yaman-Tau peak, which means "bad mountain". This peak of the Ural Mountains is the highest (1640 m) in these places. The middle part is the lowest of the entire Stone Belt. The abundance of rivers, carrying their waters among the majestic cliffs, enliven the space of wooded parmas (hills), where individual peaks rise above the border of the forest, sadly overlooking the green sea below. Here, on high ridges, you can find both mountain tundra and real alpine meadows.

Mount Narodnaya is the highest point of the Ural Mountains. Its height is 1895 meters. This geographical fact was established relatively recently. Due to the inaccessibility of the Subpolar region, few scientific expeditions were made to Mount Narodnaya.

At different times, the highest peaks of the Stone Belt of Eurasia were called the mountains: Sablya (1497 meters), Telpos-Iz (1617 meters), Manaragu (1660 meters). In 1924-1928, the Severouralsk complex expedition worked here under the leadership of B.N. Gorodkov. One of her detachments, led by A.N. Alyoshkov, in 1927, for the first time went to the upper reaches of the Národa River. Having investigated the height of the mountain using the scientific methods already available at that time, they determined its height at 1870 meters (at present it is measured more precisely - 1895 meters).

It was Alyoshkov who gave it the name, and on which syllable the emphasis should fall in it, he did not document anywhere.

Disputes over stress continued until the publication of a textbook for pedagogical universities by F.N. Malkova and N.A. Gvozdetsky in 1963, in which the emphasis was on the first syllable. Since then, this option is considered correct, formed from the name of the river starting at the foot of the peak. Although, according to Gorodkov, who spoke out after the death of Alyoshkov, she was named in honor of the Russian people, as was customary at that time.

The Ural ridges were formed in the Paleozoic era during the period of the Hercynian folding, later they experienced renewal, and their crystalline rocks came to the surface. They are composed of metamorphic, sedimentary and volcanic rocks, very rich in various minerals and rocks. They form flat-topped ridges with gentle stepped western and steep steep eastern slopes.

Národnaya (Mansiysk “Naroda-Iz”) on the map of the Urals is located in the Research Ridge of the Subpolar Urals, on the border of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug and the Komi Republic, its coordinates are 65 ° N, 60 ° E. It consists of metamorphic schists and ancient quartzites. Its top is rounded and double-headed, and the slopes of the mountain are covered with natural depressions - kars filled with water, glaciers, snowfields, rocky outcrops, mountain tundra, stone breaks.

Since the time when Narodnaya became a place of pilgrimage for tourists, objects such as "Vasya was here" appeared here - a bust of Lenin, tablets, memorial signs, a pyramid in which arrivals leave their notes, a worship cross with the words "Save and save" written on it, installed on a saddle between two mountain peaks in 1998. The eastern slope of the peak, like the entire Urals, is steep and impassable for tourists. The ascent is carried out along the western slope, which is complicated by karas, and along the more convenient northern one.

The peaks offer a view of the surrounding highest peaks of the Subpolar Urals - Sablya, Manaraga, etc. The harsh climate of the Subpolar region, which for so long did not allow getting to these highest peaks of the Stone Belt of Russia, forms here a diverse and rich flora and fauna. Here you can find coniferous and mixed forests, subalpine and alpine meadows, alpine and arctic tundra. In the warm season, numerous mosquitoes, gadflies, horseflies and smaller blood-sucking insects - biting midges, midges appear here.

Dwarf birches, blueberries, wild rosemary, blueberries, shorty larch are replaced by grasses in the height of a person, which is occasionally pink radiola. Of the animals, there are many inhabitants of the tundra - polar foxes, deer, partridges, wolves. There are badgers, bears, chipmunks. There are only two types of grayling in mountain rivers. In the lower reaches of the mountains, river fish are somewhat more abundant.

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The Ural Mountains, formed due to the collision of the Eurasian and African lithospheric plates, for Russia are a unique natural and geographic feature... They are the only mountain range crossing the country and dividing the state to the European and Asian parts.

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Geographic location

In which country the Ural Mountains are located, any schoolchild knows. This massif is a chain that is located between the East European and West Siberian plains.

It is stretched so that it divides the largest one into 2 continents: Europe and Asia... Starting from the coast of the Arctic Ocean, ends in the Kazakh desert. On it stretches from south to north, and in some places the length reaches 2 600 km.

The geographical location of the Ural mountains goes almost everywhere parallel to the 60th meridian.

If you look at the map, you can see the following: central District is located strictly vertically, the northern one turns to the northeast, and the southern one turns to the southwest. Moreover, in this place the ridge merges with the hills located nearby.

Although the Urals are considered the border between continents, there is no exact geological line. Therefore, it is believed that they belong to Europe, and the line dividing the mainland runs along the eastern foothills.

Important! The Urals are rich in their natural, historical, cultural and archaeological values.

The structure of the mountain system

In the chronicles of the 11th century, the Ural mountain system is referred to as Earth belt... This name is explained by the length of the ridge. It is conventionally divided into 5 areas:

  1. Polar.
  2. Subpolar.
  3. North.
  4. Average.
  5. South.

The mountain range partially covers the northern regions of Kazakhstan and 7 Russian regions:

  1. Arkhangelsk region
  2. Komi Republic.
  3. Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.
  4. Perm Territory.
  5. Sverdlovsk region.
  6. Chelyabinsk region.
  7. Orenburg region.

Attention! The widest part of the mountain range is located in the Southern Urals.

The location of the Ural mountains on the map.

Structure and relief

The first mention and description of the Ural Mountains dates back to ancient times, but they were formed much earlier. This happened under the interaction of rocks of various configurations and ages. In some areas, they are still preserved remnants of deep faults and elements of oceanic rocks... The system was formed almost at the same time as Altai, but in the future it experienced less uplifts, resulting in a small "height" of the peaks.

Attention! The advantage over the high Altai is that there are no earthquakes in the Urals, so it is much safer to live in.

Minerals

The long-term resistance of volcanic structures to the force of the wind is the result of the formation of numerous attractions created by nature. These include caves, grottoes, rocks etc. In addition, there are huge mineral reserves, primarily ore, from which the following chemical elements are obtained:

  1. Iron.
  2. Copper.
  3. Nickel.
  4. Aluminum.
  5. Manganese.

Making a description of the Ural Mountains by physical map, we can conclude that most of development of minerals is carried out in the southern part of the region, or rather in Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Orenburg regions ... Almost all types of ores are mined here, and not far from Alapaevsk and Nizhny Tagil Sverdlovsk region discovered a deposit of emeralds, gold and platinum.

The area of ​​the lower trough of the western slope is replete with oil and gas wells. Northern part the region is somewhat inferior in deposits, but this is compensated by the fact that precious metals and stones prevail here.

Ural mountains - mining leader, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy and chemical industry. In addition, the region is in first place in Russia in terms of pollution level.

It should be taken into account, no matter how profitable the development of underground resources, the harm to the environment is more significant. The raising of rocks from the depths of the mine is carried out by crushing with the release of a large amount of dust particles into the atmosphere.

Upstairs, the fossils enter into a chemical reaction with the environment, the oxidation process takes place, and the chemical products obtained in this way again get into the air and water.

Attention! The Ural Mountains are known for their deposits of precious, semi-precious stones and precious metals. Unfortunately, they are almost completely worked out, therefore the Ural gems and malachite can now be found only in the museum.

Peaks of the Urals

On topographic map Russian Ural Mountains are light brown. This means that they do not have great indicators in relation to sea level. Among the natural areas, the highest region located in Subpolar region... The table shows the coordinates of the heights of the Ural Mountains and the exact magnitude of the peaks.

The location of the peaks of the Ural Mountains is created in such a way that there are unique sites in each area of ​​the system. Therefore, all the listed heights are recognized tourist sites successfully used by people with active lifestyles.

On the map, you can see that the Polar Region is average in altitude and narrow in length in width.

The nearby Subpolyarny District has highest height, it is characterized by a sharp relief.

Of particular interest arises from the fact that several glaciers are concentrated here, one of which is almost 1,000 m.

The height of the Ural Mountains in the Northern Region is insignificant. The exception is a few peaks that rise above the entire ridge. The other heights, where the vertices are smoothed, and they themselves have a rounded shape, do not exceed 700 m above sea level. Interestingly, closer to the south, they become even lower and practically turn into hills. The terrain is practically resembles a flat.

Attention! The map of the south of the Ural Mountains with peaks of more than one and a half kilometers again reminds of the involvement of the ridge in a huge mountain system separating Asia from Europe!

Big cities

A physical map of the Ural Mountains with cities marked on it proves that this area is considered to be abundantly populated. The only exceptions are the Polar and Subpolar Urals. Here several cities with a population of one million and a large number of those with more than 100,000 inhabitants.

The population of the region is explained by the fact that at the beginning of the last century in the country there was an urgent need for minerals. This became the reason for a large resettlement of people to the region where similar developments were carried out. In addition, in the early 60s and 70s, many young people left for the Urals and Siberia, hoping to radically change their lives. This influenced the formation of new settlements, under construction at the site of mining.

Ekaterinburg

Capital of Sverdlovsk region with population 1,428,262 people considered the capital of the region. The location of the metropolis is concentrated on the eastern slope of the Middle Urals. The city is the largest cultural, scientific, educational and administrative center. The geographical position of the Ural Mountains is created in such a way that it is here that there is a natural path connecting Central Russia and Siberia... This influenced the development of the infrastructure and economy of the former Sverdlovsk.

Chelyabinsk

The population of the city, which is located where the Ural Mountains, according to the geological map, border Siberia: 1 150 354 people.

It was founded in 1736 on the eastern slope of the South Ridge. And with the advent of railway communication with Moscow, it began to develop dynamically and became one of the largest industrial centers in the country.

Over the past 20 years, the region's ecology has deteriorated significantly, which has caused an outflow of the population.

Nevertheless, today the volume of local industry is more than 35% of the gross municipal product.

Ufa

The capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan with a population of 1,105,657 people is considered 31st city in Europe by population... It is located west of the South Ural Mountains. The length of the metropolis from south to north is more than 50 km, and from east to west - 30 km. In terms of size, it is one of the five largest Russian cities... In the ratio of the number of population and occupied area, there is about 700 m2 of urban area for each inhabitant.

In addition to millionaires, near the Ural Mountains are cities with a population of less than the specified number. First of all, it is necessary to name the capitals of the administrative centers, which include the following: Orenburg - 564 445 people and Perm - 995 589. In addition to them, you can add some more cities:

  1. Nizhny Tagil - 355 694.
  2. Nizhnevartovsk - 270 865.
  3. Surgut - 306 789.
  4. Nefteyugansk - 123 567.
  5. Magnitogorsk - 408 418.
  6. Chrysostom - 174,572.
  7. Miass - 151 397.

Important! Population information is presented as of the end of 2016!

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Conclusion

Although the height of the Ural Mountains is not great, they are the object of close attention from climbers, tourists and just people with an active lifestyle. Anyone, even the most sophisticated person, can find a hobby here to their liking.