Ural mountains
The Ural Mountains or simply the Urals, is a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural river and north-western Kazakhstan.[1] The mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia. Vaygach Island and the islands of Novaya Zemlya form a further continuation of the mountain chain to the north into the Arctic Ocean.
The Ural Mountains are one of the richest mineral regions in the world, containing more than 1,000 varieties of valuable minerals.
The largest city in the Urals region is Yekaterinburg known as Sverdlovsk (1924–1991) during the Soviet Union. The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of 1,521,136 residents[2], up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration. It is the fourth-largest city in Russia, and one of Russia's main cultural and industrial centres. It was in this city that the Russian Imperial Family were brutally murdered and dismembered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
Footnotes
- ↑ Ural Mountains, Encyclopædia Britannica on-line
- ↑ https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/yekaterinburg-population
