Topic summary
Northwestern Russia
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Northwest Russia.
Last glacial period
The Weichselian glaciation that came to cover much of northwestern Russia originated most likely from small ice fields and ice caps in the Scandinavian Mountains, which spread eastward. In northwestern Russia the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet reached its Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) extent 17 ka BP, five thousand years later than in Denmark, Germany and Western Poland.