Timanrücken

of the Timanrücken (Russian Тиманскийкряж) is a Höhenzug rising highly up to 463 m in the extreme north of the European part of Russia.

The elevator back, which west the “northern Urals mountains “is, is a part of the Eastern European level. It lies west the river Petschora and east the northRussian low country; in the north the Barentssee and thus the Arctic ocean follows .

Timanrückens , which are determined by the taiga and tundra, only extremely thinly settled the centralmountain-like landscape are characterized by hilly and hilly ranges, which became wavily polished from the glacier masses of the ice ages. Into the Höhenzug a few rivers entrenched themselves, which rise also there: Isma, Mesen, Wytschegda.

The largest city in region are Uchta, which were created in the thirties, in order to open the Timan for the raw material ordering otherwise only very thinly, settled.

In the area of the Timanrückens different Bodenschätze pre come among other things natural gas, oil, bauxite and titanium minerals.

See also: Eastern European level

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illustrated report on a journey over an expedition by the northern Timan (Russian)