Timan Ridge

Timan Ridge

The Timan Ridge ( _ru. Тиманский кряж – "Timansky Kryazh") is a highland in the far north of European Russia. Most of the Timan Ridge is situated in the Komi Republic, but the northernmost part is in Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Arkhangelsk Oblast. The highest point in the Timan Ridge 463 meters AMSL.

The Timan Ridge is situated west of the northern Ural Mountains, and is a part of the East European Plain. It lies west of the Pechora River, and divides the eatern and western parts of the North Russian Lowlands. The Timan Ridge ends at the Barents Sea in the north.

The Timan Ridge, which lies within the taiga and tundra belts, is characterized by a mountainous hill terrain, grinded and formed by the ice during the Ice Ages. Several rivers has their sources in the Timan Ridge; the most important being the Izhma (a tributary of the Pechora), the Mezen, and the Vychegda (a tributary of the Northern Dvina).

The largest town in the otherwise sparsely populated Timan Ridge is Ukhta, founded in the 1930s in order to open up the Timan Ridge for extraction of raw materials. There are numerous mineral deposits in the Timan Ridge − such as natural gas, petroleum, bauxite and titanium.


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