The the Ural is an assembly line hercyniennes which extends along a North-South axis and forms the geographical limit between the Europe and the Asia in Russia. This chain covers more than 2000 km, of the Mer of Kara in north until the Mer of Aral, as well as the steppes of the Kazakhstan in the south. The Ural Mountains culminate at an average altitude of 1000 m and include/understand three parts:

• the the septentrional Ural : it represents the narrowest part and highest. Its culminating point is the mount Narodnaya (1894 m).

• the the central Ural : it is a plate low, very wooded and rich in raw materials (oil, iron, bauxite, copper, asbestos, chromium, platinum and gold), which makes of it an important area industrial, since the 18th century. One produced currently approximately 1/3 of Russian steel there, for example.

• the the southernmost Ural : the Ural river takes its source in this covered area of pastures and forests, of many lakes the landscape and in particular the lake Tourgoyak close to Miass draw.

This area of the Russia joins together several mining layers of copper, zinc and iron. Civil and military industry is very present on these places.

According to Jean Cap, the word the Ural comes either from the word Khanty urr (assembly line), or of the Turkish aral-tau or ural-tau (even direction).

Important cities: Iekaterinbourg, Perm, Tcheliabinsk and Miass.

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