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Adventure Mountains in Russia

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Free video about Russian mountains. This video was created for you by http://epsos.de and can be re-used for free under the creative commons license with the attribution of epSos.de as the original author of this Russian mountains video. Thank you for supporting the creative commons movement !! Russia is the world's largest country and spans almost the entire northern super continent of Eurasia : occupies Northern Asia (1/3 of the continental total) and eastern Europe -respectively, 74.7% and 25.3% of its territory. It is separated from the American continent by the Bering Strait. Because of its size, Russia displays both monotony and diversity and as its geography, climate, vegetation and soil cover large distances. Located in the northern and middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere, most of the Russian Federation is much closer to the North Pole that of Ecuador. In a country comparisons are of little value, but not in Russia with its huge size and diversity. The border of the Russian Federation is the longest in the world and is a major source of concern for national security in the post-Soviet era period. Throughout the 20,139 kilometers of land border, Russia has borders with fourteen countries, eight of which did not exist as countries until the early 1990. Furthermore, in its northeast end, only eighty-six kilometers of the Bering Strait separating Russia fifteenth neighbor, the United States. The East European Plain covers much of European Russia. The West Siberian Plain, which is the world's largest, stretches eastward from the Urals to the Yenisei River. Because the terrain and vegetation are relatively uniform in each of the natural areas, Russia presents an illusion of uniformity. However, the Russian territory has representation from all major vegetation zones in the world, except for the rain forest. The Ural Mountains are the best-known mountain range in the country, because they form the natural border between Europe and Asia. The mountain range stretches some 2,500 km from the northern border of Kazakhstan to the Arctic Ocean. 68% of the Ural mountains in Russia, while the remaining 32% belongs to Kazakhstan. Geographers have traditionally divided the Urals into five regions: South, East, North, Subarctic and Arctic. The tree line drops from 1400 meters to sea level as it advances northward. In the mountain range west of Lake Baikal, in the south-central Siberia, the highest elevations are 3,300 m in the western part of the Sayan mountains, 3,200 m in the eastern part of the Sayan, and the 4,506 m of Mount Belukha in the Altai Mountains. The Eastern Sayan comes close to the southern shore of Lake Baikal; on the lake, there is a difference in elevation of more than 4,500 m from the nearest mountain, 2,840 meters high, and the deepest part of the lake, which is 1,700 m below sea level. The mountain ranges east of Lake Baikal are lower, forming a complex of lower wisdom teeth and valleys ranging from the lake to the Pacific coast. The maximum height is given in the Stanovoi mountains (Mount Skalisty, 2,482 m), extending from west to east, from the north of Lake Baikal to the Sea of Okhotsk. South of this mountain range is southeastern Siberia, whose mountain peaks reach 800 m. Crossing the Strait of Tartary is the island of Sakhalin, whose highest point is Mount Lopatin (1,609 m). The truly alpine terrain appears in the southern mountains of the Caucasus, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, the natural border between Europe and Asia, with stunning heights, a great, almost insurmountable geographical barrier, with few steps between Russia and its neighbors Southwest, Georgia and Azerbaijan. It is a great mountain range located between the river basins of Kuban and Terek River in northern Anatolia, and Iran river to the south. Northeastern Siberia, north of the Stanovoy range, is a very mountainous region. The long peninsula of Kamchatka, reaching south to the Sea of Okhotsk, includes many volcanic peaks, some of them still active. The higher the Kliuchevskoi (4750 m), the highest point in the Russian Far East. The volcanic chain continues from southern Kamchatka end southward through the Kuril Islands chain and Japan. Kamchatka is also one of the two centers of seismic activity in the Russian Federation. Most of the Russian Federation consists of two plains -the East European Plain and the West Siberian Plain - two lowlands -the North of Siberia and Kolyma, in the northeast corner of Siberia two plateaus, the Central Siberian Plateau and Lena plateau. Thank you for supporting the creative commons movement !!