broadest expanses of plains, wild field, overgrown with flowers and herbs - that is the steppe.This vast hectares of land, breathing freedom, calcined summer heat, windswept or promorozhennaya winter cold.Rugged stream bed free the soul of Russian man, wild steppe glorified in folk songs.Admired, loved, cherished her.In today's world a little expanses of undeveloped man.The steppes were plowed and planted with wheat, oats, rye.Those fields that remained intact or have been abandoned and covered with grass again, continue to fascinate at any time of the year.
What steppe geography of Russia?This vast expanses that stretch from the most western Russian border regions to Siberia, covering the territory up to the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus mountains reaching.Through the steppe zone are its waters, such major rivers as the Volga, Don, Ob and the Dnieper.This is where a flat somewhere slightly hilly terrain, which at times, here and there, there are small islands of trees.
Nature steppes diverse.The steppe in the spring - this is a huge area covered with a rich variety of colors.Riot of colors, this palette of the artist - that is the steppe in this time of year.The islets are bright red and yellow tulips with purple violets coexist, blue and purple hyacinths, golden Adonis sparks, and all this amid the bright green grass.A little later, in early June, spring is replaced by a variety of colors at least a bright palette of colors of summer time - covered expanses of blue forget-me-red poppies, irises, yellow, tansy, wild peonies.July - the time of flowering purple sage.In the second half of the summer the steppe is white, covered with meadows of daisies, clover and meadowsweet.In the hot season, when the sun rises high and the ground dries out, and rarely rains, like the endless steppe burnt canvas.Here and there, among the faded stems of grasses, fluttering strands of gray feather.When the hot sun finally "will work" over the vast expanses, as bleak parched cracked earth will roll balls of tumbleweed.This is coupled with a variety of plants that make up someone and moving on open spaces, spreading their seeds.
Rich and fauna of the steppes.For him, that is the steppe?This is the harsh living conditions, to which the inhabitants of the vast expanses of forced to adapt.In a large number of trades steppe rodents: gophers, mole rats, jerboas, marmots, some types of birds.All they build their burrows with numerous passages, underground.Among the different types of prey found gazelles, antelopes.It is not rare in the steppes and snakes.Birds of prey are represented by steppe eagles, kestrels found lun.In addition, in the steppes inhabited bustard and various kinds of small birds such as larks.They live in the steppes, and predatory animals.Steppenwolf and jackals are especially dangerous in winter.When the steppe was still poorly mastered, were often cases where a wolf pack attack on human rights.
Steppe found on other continents.However, there she has other names.In America - a prairie in Africa - savanna.
