The Ural Mountains (/ ˈ jʊər əl /; Russian: Ура́льские го́ры, tr. Uralskiye gory, IPA: [ʊˈralʲskʲɪjə ˈgorɨ]; Bashkir: Урал тауҙары, Ural tauźarı) 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 river Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan.

In 1725, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg first used the Ural Mountains as part of the eastern demarcation of Europe. Since c. 1850 most cartographers have regarded the Urals and the Ural River to the south of them as the eastern boundary of Europe, geographically recognized as a subcontinent of Eurasia.. The Nazis rejected the notion that these mountains demarcated the …

Der Ural (russisch Урал, Уральские горы; auch Uralgebirge genannt) ist ein bis 1895 m hohes und rund 2200 km langes Gebirge, das sich in Nord-Süd-Richtung durch den mittleren Westen Russlands erstreckt und einen Teil der asiatisch-europäischen Grenze darstellt.

IMZ-Ural is a conglomerate of companies producing and selling classic sidecar motorcycles. In November 1992, IMZ-Ural transformed into an open-end joint stock company "Uralmoto Joint Stock Company" a privatized entity owned 40% by management and employees through grant, 38% by auction with privatization vouchers (mostly management and employees also) and 22% …

Ural (Russian: Ура́л) is a geographical region located around the Ural Mountains, between the East European and West Siberian plains. It is considered a part of Eurasian Steppe, extending approximately from the North to the South; from the Arctic Ocean to the end of Ural River near Orsk city. The border between Europe and Asia runs along the Eastern side of the Ural Mountains.

The Ural (Russian: Урал, pronounced ), known as Yaik (Russian: Яик, Bashkir: Яйыҡ, romanized: Yayıq, pronounced ; Kazakh: Жайық, romanized: Zhayyk, جايىق, pronounced ) before 1775, is a river flowing through Russia and Kazakhstan in the continental border between Europe and Asia.It originates in the southern Ural Mountains and discharges into the Caspian Sea.

Der Meteor von Tscheljabinsk war ein am 15. Februar 2013 um etwa 9:20 Uhr Ortszeit (4:20 Uhr MEZ) weithin sichtbarer Meteor in der Tscheljabinsker Oblast rund um die Stadt Tscheljabinsk im russischen Ural, nachdem ein Meteoroid bzw. kleiner Asteroid in die Erdatmosphäre eingetreten war. Nach Rekonstruktion der Flugbahn zählte dieser mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit zur Gruppe …

Taiga has a subarctic climate with very large temperature range between seasons. −20 °C (−4 °F) would be a typical winter day temperature and 18 °C (64 °F) an average summer day, but the long, cold winter is the dominant feature. This climate is classified as Dfc, Dwc, Dsc, Dfd and Dwd in the Köppen climate classification scheme, meaning that the short summers (24 h average 10 °C …

Gilead or Gilad (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l i ə d /; Hebrew: גִּלְעָד Gīləʿāḏ, Arabic: جلعاد, Ǧalʻād, Jalaad) is the ancient, historic, biblical name of the mountainous northern part of the region of Transjordan. The region is bounded in the west by the Jordan River, in the north by the deep ravine of the river Yarmouk and the region of Bashan, and in the southwest by what were known ...

Anthracite, also known as hard coal, and black coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic luster.It has the highest carbon content, the fewest impurities, and the highest energy density of all types of coal and is the highest ranking of coals.. Anthracite is the most metamorphosed type of coal (but still represents low-grade metamorphism), in which the …