Russia Floods: Over 10,400 Homes Flooded as Rivers Swell Due to Breached Dam| Oneindia News
Catastrophic floods ravage Russia's Ural Mountains and Siberia, triggered by a dam breach on the Ural River. Over 6,000 homes are..
The Ural Mountains, or simply the Urals, are a mountain range in Eurasia that runs north–south mostly through Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan. The mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia. Vaygach Island and the islands of Novaya Zemlya form a further continuation of the chain to the north into the Arctic Ocean. The average altitudes of the Urals are around 1,000–1,300 metres (3,300–4,300 ft), the highest point being Mount Narodnaya, which reaches a height of 1,894 metres (6,214 ft).
Catastrophic floods ravage Russia's Ural Mountains and Siberia, triggered by a dam breach on the Ural River. Over 6,000 homes are..
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