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Central Russian Upland

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mountain range

Wikidata facts

Instance of
upland
Continent
Europe
Area
480000
Elevation
293
Shares border with
Smolensk–Moscow Upland
Material used
sedimentary rock
Image
Осетр река.jpg
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located in/on physical feature
East European Plain
time period
Precambrian
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WikiProject Ukraine
native label
Середньоруська височина
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Encyclopedic overview

Typical view of the Central Russian Upland (Belgorod Oblast) The Central Russian Upland (also: Middle Russian Upland (Russian: Среднерусская возвышенность, romanized: Srednerusskaya vozvyshennost') and East European Upland) is an upland area of the East European Plain and is an undulating plateau with an average elevation of 230–250 m (750–820 ft). Its highest peak is measured at 293 m (961 ft). The southeastern portion of the upland known as the Kalach Upland [ru]. The Central Upland is built of Precambrian deposits of the crystalline Voronezh Massif.

Location

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Central Russian Upland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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