GEOG 002 Lecture 18: Geog 2 - LEC18
23 Dec 2020
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The first feature you notice when looking at the physiographic map of the russian realm is a prominent north- south trending mountain range that extends from the arctic ocean southward to kazakhstan (figs. 2a-1 and 2a-2), dividing russia into two parts: the russian plain to the west and siberia to the east. This range, the ural mountains, is sometimes designated as the. Real eastern boundary of europe, but as we noted in chapters 1a and 1b, russia is not europe. Cultural life to the east of the urals is pretty much the same as it is to the west, and there is no geographic justification for putting the city of samara (see fig. Chelyabinsk, on the other side of the urals, outside of it. The russian plain, which lies west of the ural mountains, is the eastward continuation of the. North european lowland, and here lies russia"s core area.
