East European Plain
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The East European Plain (also Eastern-European Lowland, Eastern European Lowlands, Eastern European Plain, and Russian Plain) is a plain and series of broad river basins in Eastern Europe. It is the largest mountain-free part of the European landscape. The plain spans approximately 4,000,000 km² (~1,544,408 mi²) and averages about 170 m (~558 ft.) in elevation. It stretches from the Ural Mountains and covers most of the European part of Russia, Baltic states, Belarus, most of Ukraine, Moldova, East Poland and West Kazakhstan.
It is bounded by the White Sea and the Barents Sea in the North, Ural Mountains, Ural River and Caspian Sea in the East, Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea in the South, Carpathian Mountains and other mountainous features in Poland in the West. The plain is subdivided into a number of distinct regions, including the Valday Hills; the Central Russian Upland; the Volga Uplands; and the Dnieper River, Black Sea, and Caspian Sea lowlands.
Within the territory of Imperial Russia and Soviet Union it has been known as the Russian Plain (in Russian: Русская равнина, transliterated as Russkaya Ravnina). Both names are often used interchangeably.
Together with the Northern European Lowlands it constitutes the European Plain.
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[edit] Landforms
The following major landform features are within the East European Plain (listed generally from North to South).
- Timan Ridge ru:Тиманский кряж
- North Russian Lowlands
- Northern Ridge ru:Северные Увалы
- Baltic Uplands ru:Балтийская возвышенность
- Valdai Hills
- Moscow Uplands ru:Московская возвышенность
- Central Russian Uplands ru:Среднерусская возвышенность
- Smolensk-Moscow Ridge ru:Смоленско-Московская возвышенность
- Belarusian Ridge
- Volaga Uplands ru:Приволжская возвышенность
- Polesie
- Podole uplands ru:Подольская возвышенность
- Caspian Depression
- Kuma-Manych Depression
[edit] Larger rivers
- Volga River
- Ural River
- Dnieper River
- Don River, Russia
- Pechora River
- Kama River
- Oka River
- Belaya River
- Daugava
- Neman River
- Pregolya
Dnieper lowlands
- West Siberian Plain, the other major plain of Russia
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