What is Ural Mountains?
[[File:Ural Mountains Map.gif|thumb|285px|Map of the Ural Mountains]] [[File:Prokudin-Gorskii-32.jpg|thumb|right|The Village of Kolchedan in the Ural Mountains in 1912]] [[File:Gorskii 04428u.jpg|thumb|Work at the Bakalskii mine]] The '''Ural Mountains''' ({{lang-ru|Ура́льские го́ры|Uralskiye gory}}), also known simply as the '''Urals''', is a [[mountain range]] that runs roughly north and south through western [[Russia]]. == Geography == The Urals stretch 2,500&nbsp;km from the Kazakh [[steppe]]s along the northern border of [[Kazakhstan]] to the coast of the [[Arctic Ocean]]. The [[island]] of [[Novaya Zemlya]] forms a further continuation of the chain. Geographically this range marks the northern part of the [[border]] between [[Asia]]n and [[Europe]]an sections of the [[Eurasia]]n [[continent]]. Its highest peak is [[Mount Narodnaya]] (Poznurr, 1895 m). == Other websites == {{commonscat|Ural Mountains}} * [http://welcome-ural.ru/urals/77/ Five parts of the Ural Mountains] {{multistub|Geo|Europe}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Mountain ranges of Asia]] [[Category:Mountains of Russia]]