The hinterland of the Middle Urals is strongly influenced by north-south-trending strike-slip faults. |
Not long after Ivan the Terrible captured the Tatar city of Kazan in 1552, Russian freebooters acting in the Tsar's name began to penetrate beyond the Urals. |
From there, the polecat's northern border goes on to the upper Vychegda River, and descends further on southwards and in the Urals. |
From September of 1970, he served in the Urals Military District as intelligence chief of a missile battalion. |
A species of knitted golem stretched out on the floor, it extracts sense memories of his childhood home from the Urals folk custom of making carpets out of fabric remnants. |
East and south of the Urals much of the orogen is buried beneath later Mesozoic and Cenozoic sediments. |