Russia topographic maps
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Taiga
Russia > Kemerovo Oblast–Kuzbass > Тайгинский городской округ > Taiga
Although at high elevations taiga grades into alpine tundra through Krummholz, it is not exclusively an alpine biome, and unlike subalpine forest, much of taiga is lowlands.
Average elevation: 817 ft
Saint Petersburg
Russia > Saint Petersburg > Saint Petersburg
The elevation of Saint Petersburg ranges from the sea level to its highest point of 175.9 m (577 ft) at the Orekhovaya Hill in the Duderhof Heights in the south. Part of the city's territory west of Liteyny Prospekt is no higher than 4 m (13 ft) above sea level, and has suffered from numerous floods. Floods in…
Average elevation: 46 ft
Nizhny Novgorod
Russia > Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Originally the name was just Novgorod (“Newtown"), but to distinguish it from the other, older and well-known Novgorod (Veliky Novgorod) to the west, the city was commonly called “Novgorod of the Lower lands," or “Lower Newtown.” This land was named “lower” (nizhniy (нижний)), even though it…
Average elevation: 299 ft
Kyzyl
Russia > Tuva Republic > Kyzyl City
They began to lay a new city in the village of Vilany, in Tuvan – Khem-Beldyr, which means "confluence of rivers". Technological engineer K.V. Goguntsov and topographer M. Ya. Kryuchkov arrived here in February 1914. Kryuchkov drew a general plan of the city of Belotsarsk (fund 123, opis, 2, delo 21), which…
Average elevation: 2,621 ft
Kazbegi
Russia > Republic of North Ossetia – Alania > Prigorodny District
Kazbek is located on the Khokh Range, a mountain range which runs north of the Greater Caucasus Range, and which is pierced by the gorges of the Ardon and the Terek. At its eastern foot runs the Georgian Military Road through the pass of Darial 2,378 meters (7,805 feet). The mountain itself lies along the edge…
Average elevation: 14,186 ft
Moscow
Moscow is situated on the banks of the Moskva River, which flows for just over 500 km (311 mi) through the East European Plain in central Russia, not far from the natural border of the forest and forest-steppe zone. 49 bridges span the river and its canals within the city's limits. The elevation of Moscow at…
Average elevation: 522 ft
Lena River
Russia > Irkutsk Oblast > Киренский район > Kirensk
Originating at an elevation of 1,640 meters (5,381 ft) at its source in the Baikal Mountains south of the Central Siberian Plateau, 7 kilometres (4 mi) west of Lake Baikal, the Lena flows northeast across the Lena-Angara Plateau, being joined by the Kirenga, Vitim and Olyokma. From Yakutsk it enters the…
Average elevation: 951 ft
Novy Urengoy
Russia > Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug > городской округ Новый Уренгой
Average elevation: 203 ft
Mount Elbrus (West Summit)
Russia > Karachay-Cherkessia > Karachayevsky District
As Elbrus is located in the Northern Hemisphere, the summer period takes place from June to mid-September, with an average of 50% of sunny days favorable to the ascent of the summit. However, the winds, dominated by westerly air masses, can turn violent and temperatures drop very quickly. Above 4000 meters…
Average elevation: 16,932 ft
Iturup
Russia > Sakhalin Oblast > Kurilsky District
The deposits of the Vetrovoy Isthmus include volcanic-tectonic dislocations, pumice pyroclastics, aeolian-ash deposits and soil-tephra formations. The morphometric parameters of the basement terrace indicate an area elevation rate during the last phase of coastal marine accumulation that could reach 4 mm/year,…
Average elevation: 102 ft
Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island
Russia > Khabarovsk Krai > Khabarovsky District > Бычиха
Average elevation: 207 ft
Pereslavl-Zalessky
Russia > Yaroslavl Oblast > городской округ Переславль-Залесский
Average elevation: 499 ft
