Yenisei – one of the largest rivers of the globe. Length of the Yenisei river near the 5075 km. basin area equal 2580 thousand km2 river occupies the 2nd place among the rivers of Russia (after the Ob) and the 7th place among the rivers of the world. The hydrographic network of the Yenisei includes […]
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Ob river is one of the largest rivers of not only Russia, but all over the world. It flows from the South to the North of Western Siberia is almost parallel to the great Russian river Yenisei. Falls into a mighty stream in the North of the Kara sea. In the place of confluence there […]
Western Siberia is a territory extending 2,500 kilometers from the Arctic ocean to the dry steppes of Kazakhstan and 1,500 kilometers from the mountains of the Urals to the Yenisey river. About 80% of the Western Siberia is located within the West Siberian plain, which consists of two flat bowl-shaped heavily waterlogged depressions separated by […]
Vuoksa represents a unique combination of the river and system of the lakes which are in territory at once of two countries – Russia and Finland. A river source is the lake Saima in Finland. The length of the river makes 156 km., from them of 143 km. Is in territory of the Russian Federation. […]
Caucasus is one of the most interesting regions in the archaeological relation. Archaeological researches show, that people on Caucasus lived in a paleolithic. It is proved by the finds made in different years. Will of geopolitical position, Caucasus always was gate between two civilizations: Europe and the West. On territory of Caucasus there was a […]
Relief of Kamchatka. Kamchatka – the mountain territory, three quarters, and even the little more, it is occupied by mountains. Rather large lowlands are only in the north, in the west and in a neutral part of peninsula. In the rest, lowlands are the narrow strips dated for valleys of the rivers. The relief of […]
The Kamchatka krai is located in the extreme northeast of Russia. The territory area – 472,3 thousand км2; its big part – 301,5 thousand км2 – is necessary on Koryak autonomous region. Within edge are: peninsula Kamchatka with a part of continent adjoining to it, Karaginsky and Commander Islands. The Kamchatka krai surpasses each of […]
The Siberian river Lena is great and mighty. From sources on the western slope of Baikal mountains to ice cold Laptev sea its long way – 4270 km lies. On character of a current Lena divide into three sites: from a source to a mouth of Vitim, from a mouth of Vitim to a […]
The East European Plain one of the largest plains on our planet (second-large after the Amazonian plain in the Western America). It settles down in east part of Europe. As its most part is in limits of borders of the Russian Federation, the East European Plain sometimes call Russian. In northwest part it is limited […]