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5 unusual facts about Ural River


Continental Europe

Most definitions extend the boundaries of the continent to its standard boundaries: the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, and the Caucasus Mountains.

Eastern Hungarians

Prior to the Mongol Invasion, he reached the territory bordered by the rivers VolgaKamaBelayaUral as a companion to a Muslim priest.

Kazakhstan blind mole rat

Kazakhstan Blind Mole Rat (Spalax uralensis, alternatively Ural Blind Mole Rat) is an extant species of blind mole rat indigenous to Kazakhstan, along the Ural River basin and the flood plains of the Uil, Temir, and Emba rivers.

Pike pole

A number of ethnographers note that this way was specific to the Ural River.

Romashkino Field

Discovered in 1948, it is the largest oil field of Volga-Ural Basin.


Eastern Europe

The Ural Mountains, Ural River, and the Caucasus Mountains are the geographical land border of the eastern edge of Europe.


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Boundaries between continents

Kazakhstan is also a transcontinental country by this definition, its West Kazakhstan and Atyrau provinces extending on either side of the Ural River.

International Radio of Serbia

In November, 1941, during the occupation of Belgrade in the Second World War, a Free Yugoslavia radio station started its work and it broadcast its program until 1945, from the city of Ufa on the Ural River (Russia).