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The Ural Mountains are located in the north-west Russia.
They lie between the East European and West Siberian plains.
The length of the Ural mountain range - more than 2000 km, width - from 40 to 150 km.
The highest point of the Urals - Mountain People (1895 m).

The Ural Mountains have appeared about 600 million years ago. For the first time they are mentioned in the VII century BC - in the poem "Arimaspeya" written Pristeem Prokonnesskim. The poem did not reach us, but an excerpt from her link to Herodotus and other Greek scientists. The first map depicted the Ural Mountains Claudius Ptolemy in the II century AD, when they were called the mountains Imaus. But their detailed description appeared only in the XII century in the work of the Arab geographer al-Idrasi "Entertainment weary of wandering in the area."
In the Russian historical sources of the Ural Mountains are first mentioned at the end of XI century in the Tale of Bygone Years ". The exact location of the southern mountains has been studied only in the second half of the XVI century, after the conquest in 1552, the Khanate of Kazan. Immediately called "Ural Mountains" appeared in the XVIII century - so called them Russian geographer and historian Vasily Tatishchev. In translation from the Tatar language "Ural" - means "stone belt". Prior to this mountain called the Hyperborean and Riphean.
Note that the highest mountain in the Chelyabinsk region - 1,406 meters, is located within the national park "Zyuratkul" - is the top of the ridge Nurgush.

To date, the main problem of the conservation of mountain ecosystems in the Southern Urals - is deforestation as the main timber extraction are located there.
At the same time, the mountainous part of the area is already the most to protect, this is where the National Park Zyuratkul and Taganay, Ilmensky Reserve Arshinskiy, Asha, and Serpievsky Nyazepetrovky reserves.

In the Urals, a lot of rough rapids of rivers and streams originating from glaciers and lakes. In the mountainous region of the Urals, there are 3,327 lakes with a total area of 98 square meters. km .. On the plains, located next to the mountains is still 3,227 lakes. Large Shchuchye Lake - the deepest lake in the Urals. His depth of up to 136 meters, bath holds 0.78 cubic km of water.

River water is very clean and clear. Usually, the bottom can be seen at a depth of 5-6 meters. However, after the rain the level of the rivers rising strongly, and the water becomes cloudy.

Mined in the Urals oil, natural gas, coal, oil shale, peat.
Ural allocated large stocks of various resources of non-ferrous metals. This copper ore, and zinc, and nickel.

In this territory are the Republic of Komi, Nenets, Yamalo-Nenets, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District. Population density increases only by rivers - 50-60 people per sq. km. km ..

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