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Kremenets Mountains
Kremenets Mountains ( uk, Кременецькі гори; pl, Góry Krzemienieckie) is hill range in Volhynia in western Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ..., being the extension to east of Voronyaki. They are the northern border of Podolia Upland. The average height is around 300–400 m (1200 ft). The highest point is Drabanykha (409 m/1342 ft). References Volhynia Mountains of Ukraine {{Ukraine-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invasion, it was the eighth-most populous country in Europe, with a population of around 41 million people. It is also bordered by Belarus to the north; by Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; and by Romania and Moldova to the southwest; with a coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and largest city. Ukraine's state language is Ukrainian; Russian is also widely spoken, especially in the east and south. During the Middle Ages, Ukraine was the site of early Slavic expansion and the area later became a key centre of East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. The state eventually disintegrated into rival regional po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podolian Upland
The Podolian Upland (Podolian Plateau) or Podillia Upland ( uk, подільська височина, ''podilska vysochyna'') is a Upland (geology), highland area in southwestern Ukraine, on the left (northeast) bank of the Dniester, Dniester River, with small portions in its western extent stretching into eastern Poland. The region lies roughly between the Southern Bug and Dniester Rivers, with the Western Bug also originating in the northwest of the highlands. The average altitude of the Podolian Upland is over with the maximum being a hill known as Kamula Mountain, at . The surface is characterized by a combination of wide flat interfluves and deep canyon-like valleys (so called Dale (landform), dales) dissected into separate natural sub-regions: *Wooded heightened hills ** Roztocze, Roztochia ** Holohory ** Voronyaky ** Kremenets Hills (Mountains) ** Tovtry *Flat treeless plateaus ** Ternopil Plateau ** Upper Bug Plateau ** North-Podolian Plateau The Podolian Upland and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volhynia
Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) ( ; uk, Воли́нь, Volyn' pl, Wołyń, russian: Волы́нь, Volýnʹ, ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. The borders of the region are not clearly defined, but the territory that still carries the name is Volyn Oblast, in western Ukraine. Volhynia has changed hands numerous times throughout history and been divided among competing powers. For centuries it was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the Russian annexation, all of Volhynia was part of the Pale of Settlement designated by Imperial Russia on its south-western-most border. Important cities include Lutsk, Rivne, Volodymyr, Ostroh, Ustyluh, Iziaslav, Peresopnytsia, and Novohrad-Volynskyi (Zviahel). After the annexation of Volhynia by the Russian Empire as part of the Partitions of Poland, it also included the cities of Zhytomyr, Ovruch, Korosten. The city of Zviahel was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voronya Hill
Duderhof Heights or Duderhof Hills (russian: Дудергофские высоты; german: Duderhofer Höhen) is a small highland area in the southwestern part of Saint Petersburg (Krasnoselsky District). The nearest railway station, Mozhayskaya (formerly Duderhof) of the Ligovo-Krasnoye Selo- Gatchina railroad (constructed in 1859), is situated immediately to the west of the hills. Geography The heights are located to the south of the town of Krasnoye Selo, on the northern edge of the Izhora Plateau, which consists of several hills, most notably, the Orekhovaya hill (russian: Ореховая гора, lit. ''Hazel Hill'', ), the highest point of Saint Petersburg at 176 m (577'), in the south, and the Voronya hill (russian: Воронья гора, lit. ''Crow Hill'', ), 147 m (482'), in the north. Sometimes other smaller hills are considered part of the area as well: the Lysaya hill (russian: Лысая гора, lit. ''Bald Hill'') further northward, the Kirchhof hill (russian: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
