Nakas (russian: Накас; ba, Наҡаҫ) also known as Maly Nakas,Хребет Малый Накас - Nash-Ural
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. Its largest part is in

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, with a small section in

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.Nakas Ridge - Peak Visor
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Geography

The Nakas rises in northern

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, near the border with Bashkortostan. Rather than a mountain or ridge the Nakas is an elevated area, where its high summit —the highest point of Orenburg Oblast— is only a slightly bulging plateau. Despite the lack of pronounced relief the Nakas forms an important

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, separating the basins of the Belaya, Salmysh and

Bolshoy Ik The Bolshoy Ik (russian: Большой Ик, literally ''Greater Ik''; ba, Оло Ыйыҡ, ''Olo Iyıq'') is a tributary of the Sakmara, which flows south from the southern end of the Ural Mountains in Bashkortostan and Orenburg Oblast, Russ ...

rivers.

Flora

Nakas is a relatively woody area; its

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and linden forests stand out in the surrounding

steppe In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes. Steppe biomes may include: * the montane grasslands and shrublands biome * the temperate grasslands, ...

s of the region. The Nakas includes the Tugustemirov Forest, a

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with a number of tree and rare plant species.ОСОБО ОХРАНЯЕМЫХ ПРИРОДНЫХ ТЕРРИТОРИЙ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ, Часть II (List of specially protected natural areas of the Russian Federation, Part 2)
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«ПО СЛЕДАМ ЭКСПЕДИЦИЙ ВОСЬМИДЕСЯТЫХ». ПРИРОДНОЕ НАСЛЕДИЕ ОРЕНБУРЖЬЯ. ТЮЛЬГАНСКИЙ РАЙОН
{{OrenburgOblast-geo-stub Ural Mountains Landforms of Orenburg Oblast ba:Наҡаҫ (тау, Ырымбур өлкәһе)

Geography

Flora

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