Other minor oceans were shrinking and eventually closed-Rheic Ocean ( closed by the assembly of South and North America ), the small, shallow Ural Ocean ( which was closed by the collision of Baltica and Siberia continents, creating the Ural Mountains ) and Proto-Tethys Ocean ( closed by North China collision with Siberia / Kazakhstania ).

Most definitions of Continental Europe extend the boundaries of the continent to its standard boundaries, the Ural Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains.

Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally ' divided ' from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting the Black and Aegean Seas.

The problem of redefining Europe was finally resolved in 1730 when, instead of waterways, the Swedish geographer and cartographer von Strahlenberg proposed the Ural Mountains as the most significant eastern boundary, a suggestion that found favour in Russia and throughout Europe.

Europe is now generally defined by geographers as the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, with its boundaries marked by large bodies of water to the north, west and south ; Europe's limits to the far east are usually taken to be the Urals, the Ural River, and the Caspian Sea ; to the south-east, including the Caucasus Mountains, the Black Sea and the waterways connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.

Taiga forest near Saranpaul in the northeast Ural Mountains, Khanty – Mansia, Russia.

After being seriously wounded and captured by the Russians, Josip was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains.

After 13 months at the hospital, Broz was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains where prisoners selected him for their camp leader.

Three general areas are especially noted for their extensive Permian deposits-the Ural Mountains ( where Perm itself is located ), China, and the southwest of North America, where the Permian Basin in the U. S. state of Texas is so named because it has one of the thickest deposits of Permian rocks in the world.

The Ural Mountains, rich in mineral resources, form a north-south range that divides Europe and Asia.

Situated in the northeastern portion of the Balkan Peninsula, the country is halfway between the equator and the North Pole and equidistant from the westernmost part of Europe — the Atlantic Coast — and the most easterly — the Ural Mountains.

The rapid progress of the initial German air and land attacks into the Soviet Union made Red Army logistical support difficult, because many depots, and most of the USSR's industrial manufacturing base lay in the country's invaded western half, obliging their reestablishment east of the Ural Mountains.

It was here, roughly between the Dnieper River and the Ural Mountains, that the Russian Empire took shape.

Europe is relatively contained from the rest of Eurasia – i. e., Asia to the east – by the Ural Mountains, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains, and the Black Sea.

Encompassing much of the Eurasian Steppe, the territory of Siberia extends eastward from the Ural Mountains to the watershed between the Pacific and Arctic drainage basins, and southward from the Arctic Ocean to the hills of north-central Kazakhstan, then to the national borders of Mongolia and China.

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The name " Uralic " refers to the suggested Urheimat ( original homeland ) of the Uralic family, which is often located in the vicinity of the Ural Mountains, as the modern languages are spoken on both sides of this mountain range.

The Ural Mountains in the middle of the maps are labeled Montes dicti Cingulus Terræ (" The mountains called the Girdle of the Earth ")

The Ural Mountains (; ), or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan.

The Andronovo Culture, descendant of the Sintashta-Petrovka culture, was the first to extend from the Ural Mountains to Tian Shan, and its successor cultures gave rise to the Indo-Aryan migration.

From the 13th century, in Bashkortostan there has been a legend about a hero named Ural.

The Polar Ural extends for about from the Mount Konstantinov Kamen in the north to the Khulga River in the south ; it has an area of about and a strongly dissected relief.

* T. m. merula, the nominate subspecies, breeds commonly throughout much of Europe from Iceland, the Faeroes and the British Isles east to the Ural Mountains and north to about 70 N, where it is fairly scarce.

The Ural River rises nearby the Mount Kruglayain in the Ural Mountains, flows south parallel and west of the north-flowing Tobol River, through Magnitogorsk, and around the southern end of the Urals, through Orsk where it turns west for about 300 km, to Orenburg, when the Sakmara River joins.

It has been described as the world's largest unbroken lowland — more than 50 percent is less than 330 feet ( 100 m ) above sea level — and covers an area of about 2. 6 – 2. 7 million km² which is about one third of Siberia, extending from north to south for 1490 mi ( 2, 400 km ), from the Arctic Ocean to the foothills of the Altay Mountains, and from west to east for 1, 180 mi ( 1, 900 km ) from the Yenisei River to the Ural Mountains.

Lenin was concerned about the tense situation regarding workers in the Ural region.

Then the river flows for about 150 km on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains ; here its width is 10 – 13 meters.

The most common topics are about the war with the monarchist White Army, Chapayev's futile attempts to enroll into the Frunze Military Academy, and the circumstances of Chapayev's death ; officially, he was gunned down by the Whites while attempting to flee across the Ural River after a lost battle.

Irbit is on the Asiatic side of the Ural mountains, about two hundred versts northeast of Ekaterineburg.

Orsk () is the second largest city in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, located on the steppe about southeast of the southern tip of the Ural Mountains.

Serov () is a mining and commercial town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the eastern foothills of the Ural Mountains, on the left bank of the Kakva River, a tributary of the Sosva River, about north of Yekaterinburg.

It rises just south of Orsk, flows south a short distance and then flows westward south of and parallel to the Ural River, with many meanders and oxbow lakes, and joins the Ural about 75km west of Orenburg.

Its total length is about, of which the Ural Mountains are about.

The Artinskian is named after the small Russian city of Arti ( formerly Artinsk ), situated in the southern Ural mountains, about 200 km southwest of Yekaterinburg.

The Ural pictograms span for about 800 km from north to south.

These conquests complicated the migration of the aggressive nomadic hordes from Asia to Europe through Volga and Ural.

This has caused anamolies such as the route from Ural ' sk to Aktobe briefly now passing through Russian territory.

By topography and other natural features, Ural is divided, from north to south, into the Polar ( or Arctic ), Nether-Polar ( or Sub-Arctic ), Northern, Central and Southern parts.

The Central Ural is the lowest part of Urals, with the highest mountain at ( Basegi ) and smooth mountain tops ; it extends south from the Ufa River.

In addition, regular sound changes from Proto-Ural – Altaic to give Proto-Uralic and Proto-Altaic words should be found to demonstrate the existence of a Ural – Altaic vocabulary.

The reconstructed northern boundary of the range in Asia ran from Lake Ladoga ( at 60 ° N ) through the area of Novgorod and Moscow into the southern Ural, where it reached 52 ° N.

Alexandrite from the Ural Mountains in Russia is green by daylight and red by incandescent light.

Like most motorcycle manufacturers, Ural now sources pre-made components in many cases — buying alternators from Nippon Denso, brakes from Brembo, handlebar controls from Domino, forks from Paioli, ignitions from Ducati Energia, etc.

The element ruthenium was isolated in 1844 from platinum ore found in the Ural mountains.