Mount Narodnaya

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The Narodnaya (Russian Народная; well ( gora ) Naroda, ( гора ) Народа ) is with 1895 m the highest peak of the Urals.

According to geographical tradition is the intra- Eurasian border along the Urals, the Caspian Sea, drawn by the Kuma- Manytsch lowlands, Black Sea and the Bosphorus. Accordingly, the Narodnaya is the highest point of the European part of Russia, exactly on the defined boundary between Europe and Asia.

The mountain ranges of the Subpolar Urals (Russian Приполярный Урал ) in the northwest of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, only about 500 meters east of the border with the Republic of Komi.

The mountain is composed of Proterozoic and Cambrian quartzite and metamorphic schists. The area around the Narodnaya is easy glaciated. In the lower elevations, the mountain of sparse larch and birch taiga, later covered by mountain tundra.

Discovered, named and recognized as the highest mountain in the Urals, the Narodnaya was from an expedition led by the geologists TO Aleschkow in 1927.