Timan Ridge

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Location of Timanrückens

The Timanrücken (Russian Тиманский кряж ) is a 463 m high mountain range to the extreme north of the European part of Russia.

The ridge, which is located west of the northern Ural Mountains, is part of the East European Plain. It lies west of the Pechora and cuts through the northern Russian lowlands into two unequal large parts (western and eastern ). To the north is the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean so close to.

The medium mountain -like landscape of the Timanrückens, which is determined by taiga and tundra is characterized by hilly and mountainous areas that have been sanded wavy from the glaciers of the Ice Ages. In the range of hills, some river valleys have formed, the waters rise there as well. The main rivers are Ischma, mesas and Vychegda.

The largest city in the otherwise extremely sparsely populated Timanrücken is Uchta, which was founded in the 1930s to open up the Timan for the extraction of raw materials.

In the area of ​​Timanrückens various minerals occur - including natural gas, petroleum, bauxite and titanium minerals.