Large Russian landscapes
As a major Russian landscapes , the eight are located together in ranks landforms referred to this in Europe and Asia lies Russia , the geographically largest country in the world in its entirety geographically break down.
geography
overview
The northern Russian large landscapes, in which permafrost rules in many places , protrude completely (only North Siberian and East Siberian lowlands ) or partly (e.g. Central Siberian and East Siberian mountainous regions ) beyond the Arctic Circle and meet the Arctic Ocean .
On the westernmost large landscape of Russia, the Eastern European plain , which still extends far into Eastern European states, several Eastern European plains , plains and ridges connect to the Russian border ; in the south, this largest Russian landscape borders on the Black Sea and Caspian Seas, with the Caucasus in between .
The large landscapes, which are roughly in the middle of the country ( West Siberian Lowlands , Central Siberian Mountains and Central Yakut Lowlands ) meet the Kazakh Steppe in the southwest and the South Siberian Mountains in the south , one of the eight large Russian landscapes, which further south into the Chinese Djungary falls and merges into many Asian high mountains.
The easternmost large Russian landscape (East Siberian Mountains) meets the Pacific or its marginal seas in the southeast , the Bering Strait in the extreme east of Russia and the Arctic Ocean in the north.
breakdown
In the west-east direction, Russia is mainly divided into the following eight major landscapes:
- Eastern European plain , west of the Ural Mountains
- West Siberian lowlands , east of the Ural Mountains
- North Siberian Lowlands , south of the Arctic Ocean
- Central Siberian mountains , between Yenisei and Lena
- South Siberian mountains , mountains in southern Russia (or Siberia )
- Middle Yakut lowland , common river lowland of Lena and Wiljui
- East Siberian mountains , several successive mountains east of the Lena
- East Siberian Lowlands , south of the East Siberian Sea
Note : In the border area with Kazakhstan, Russia also has a share in the extensive Caspian Depression (including the Caspian Sea ), which adjoins the Eastern European plain to the south and represents another large Asian or Soviet landscape.
Landscape image
The eight large Russian landscapes consist mainly of plains, flatlands, mountains and lowlands, in which there are mostly many other types of landscape, for example basins , mountains, ridges, lowlands, lakes , depressions and swamps .
Often, these large landscapes, sometimes very rich in forests are of rivers intersected, some of which - especially Amur , Irtysh , Yenisey, Lena, whether and Volga - with their sometimes otherwise called headwaters of the largest streams belong to the earth.
Of the lakes just mentioned, which loosen up the image of the large Russian landscapes, some are among the largest on earth: While the Caspian Sea, whose waters are only partially on Russian territory, is the largest lake on the planet in terms of area, Lake Baikal is its volume largest and deepest lake. Lake Ladoga is the largest lake in Europe in terms of area. In addition to these naturally formed still waters, there are numerous artificially created reservoirs , of which the Kuibyshev reservoir is the third largest in the world in terms of area and the Bratsker reservoir is the third largest in terms of volume.
Inner Eurasian border
The Inner Eurasian border , an artificially conceived and not precisely defined borderline that divides Europe and Asia into two continents, runs right through the vast Russian landscape along the interface between the Eastern European Plain and the Western Siberian lowlands .
Settlement
The European part of Russia in particular, but also partly the center of the country, is heavily populated and shaped by people, so that many localities, cities and metropolitan areas or industrial centers with some pronounced infrastructure and diverse economies have emerged or are emerging. The largest city is Moscow . It is the Russian capital and a world city . The population density decreases overall from west to east.
The mostly flat north and the mostly mountainous east and south-east of Russia are not or only sparsely populated and, due to the harsh climatic conditions and the mostly impenetrable landscape, are often difficult or impossible to cultivate.