Volga Upland

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Location of the Volga plate

The Volga plate (also called Volga heights, Russian Приволжская возвышенность, Priwolschskaja woswyschennost ) is a 375 m high, very elongated ridge in the European part of Russia.

The Volga plate is part of the great European Plain. It is located west of the Volga River between the cities of Kazan and Volgograd in the north to the south. The mountain landscape that slopes as steep mountain shore to the right (west ) bank of the Volga River and forms the eastern boundary of the Volga plate, lies the mostly flat indented left (eastern ) bank opposite meadow.

Near-surface consists mainly of Mesozoic plate the Volga to paläogenem sandstone, mudstone, marl, chalk and Opoka. Only the few places in the area of tectonic swellings occur limestone and dolomite evident from the Carboniferous and Permian.

The medium mountain -like landscape of the Volga plate is characterized by hilly and mountainous areas in which smaller and larger rivers have dug. These include, among others Chopjor, Medveditsa and Sura. As a man-made waterway connects the Volga - Don Canal, which was built at the junction of the Volga River Plate to the south adjacent Jergenihügeln that obvious from its name rivers in east-west direction.

While the Volga plate is quite sparsely populated, to large cities located at the edge of the ridge and on the banks of the Volga. These include (from north to south) Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Saransk, Penza, Sysran, Saratov and Volgograd.