most valuable owns any country - is its territory with the population living there.As for our country, as we know, it takes 1/6 of the land surface, being the largest country in the world.The area in which our people live, is called the East European Plain and is the second largest after the Amazon, located in South America.In the north-western part of the plain is limited by our Scandinavian mountains, and from the north bordering the Barents and White seas.As for the south-western part, there is a border region Sudecki Czech Republic, as well as the mountains of Central Europe.From the south it is bounded by the Azov.Black and Caspian Seas.In eastern Russian plain as it is often called in our country, close the Ural Mountains.In general, the East European Plain has a length from north to south of about 2800 km, and from east to west - about 1.2 thousand.
In most of the territory dominated by the relief of the hollow-plain type, which actually is a large part of the natural resources of our state.The big advantage for us is also the fact that our plain almost entirely aligned with the East European platform, so that there rarely are significant disaster-related earthquakes, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions, and so on.In some places there are small hills and plateaus, the height of which can reach in some places up to 1000 meters.It is noteworthy that during the last ice age the Baltic Shield was the center of glaciation, what may indicate some form of relief preserved, which bear the imprint of glaciation.
East European Plain has its platform deposits, which lie horizontally, making the hills and lowlands that form the topography of the total surface.It is noteworthy that in some places a folded basement comes to the surface, sometimes forming ridges and hills.Examples of such places are the Timan Ridge and Upland, but in other places relief for the most part quiet.The average height of the plain above sea level is 170 meters, but there are places where the depressions are at a level of 30-40 meters below sea level.Many coastal lowlands many thousands of years ago in part disappeared under the water washed by the seas, so that as a result of water erosion relief was slightly corrected.Examples of these are the lowlands Caspian and Black Sea, where you can observe the typical bias towards the oceans.
East European Plain is rich in deep rivers that belong to the basins of two oceans: the Atlantic (Western Dvina and Neva), as well as the Arctic (Pechora, Northern Dvina).Others rivers flow into the Caspian Sea, which has no connection with the world's oceans, with a closed water area.It also takes not only the most famous, but also the longest river in Europe, praised in songs - Volga.
Minerals East European plain rich reserves of oil and coal, but as a result of intensive production today there is a gradual exhaustion of natural resources.The main part of energy fell on the area of Siberia, which has huge deposits of oil in the world.If we talk about the natural areas of the plains, the large part of it is located in the temperate zone, which are both coniferous and mixed.In general, stocks of forest in the Russian Plain is also quite extensive.
Summarizing all the above, it should be noted that the geographical position of the East European Plain is very advantageous, since it contains a most favorable conditions for human habitation.The absence of natural disasters and heat waves, with a good climate led to the emergence of centers of civilization and cultural development of modern humans.It is for this reason that we must be grateful to nature for what it has given to our country such wonderful living conditions and rich natural resources.
