Contents
Our country occupies a vast territory. Huge plains, bottomless seas, and, of course, mountains are spread over its expanses. What could be more beautiful than snow-capped tops, steep slopes covered with forests?
The highest in the country are the Caucasus Mountains, at the foot of which both ordinary tourists and climbers gather. Also on the territory of Russia are the Altai and Ural mountains. They occupy about 30% of the entire territory of our country. Some of them are quite high: about 73 peaks exceed 4 thousand meters in height, and most of them are located in the Caucasus. But there are also small ones, they can be found in the Urals.
We bring to your attention the 10 lowest mountains in Russia: the names of the small hills of our country, which are not inferior in beauty to the giants, stretching to the very clouds.
10 Folk, Ural, 1895 m
It is considered the highest point of the Urals. It is located in a remote area, on the border of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug and the Komi Republic. In this part of the Urals, there is a relief with sheer cliffs and deep gorges; there is no housing nearby.
First people’s mountain discovered the Hungarian explorer A. Reguli in 1846 and mapped it as Poen-Urr. The name was given to it by the geologist A.N. Aleshkov in 1927, who, together with his colleagues, studied the Subpolar Urals in detail.
There are two pronunciations for the word “folk” with stress on the first and second syllables. Why the mountain could be called “Narodnaya” in Soviet times is understandable and without explanation – it belonged to the Soviet people. The second option appeared because at the foot of the mountain flows the river Peoples, in the name of which the emphasis falls on the first syllable.
9. Manaraga, Ural, 1662 m
The mountain is located in the Subpolar Urals. The comb immediately catches the eye, which is divided into 5-7 “teeth”. Word to the tower translated from Nenets means “like a bear’s paw” (“mana” – front paw of a bear, “raha” – similar).
Manaraga – the highest and most beautiful mountain peak. Only professional climbers can climb its highest peak, but some of the “teeth” of the mountain are also available for amateurs.
8. Yamantau, Ural, 1640 m
Despite their relatively small size, Yamantau also considered the highest in the South Urals. If you translate its name from Bashkir, you get “bad or evil mountain».
Researchers are sure that such a name could have appeared because its slopes were covered with swamps and littered with kurum, which made it impossible to graze cattle there. There were many bears on the slopes of Yamantau, and local residents also noticed that horses were constantly dying in this place.
There is an assumption that nuclear facilities and bomb shelter complexes are located on this territory. In the late 90s, construction work was carried out here, and in Soviet times there were military garrisons there.
The mountain has 2 peaks, Big Yamantau and Small Yamantau. Up to a mark of 1 thousand meters, they are covered with mixed forest, which is replaced by alpine meadows. And above there is a kurumnik, grass, flowers, moss, there are no trees and bushes. There are several springs at the top.
7. Telposiz, Ural, 1617 m
The mountain is located on the territory of the Komi Republic, in the Northern Urals, on the banks of the Shchugor River. If we translate its name “Telposiz» from the Komi language, it will turn out «wind nest mountain“. It did not appear by chance. Bad weather often happens in this area, strong winds blow from the mountain, they bring clouds with them.
The foot of the mountain is not inhabited, the nearest village is 75 km away. Novice tourists can also conquer this peak in the summer.
6. Payer, Ural, 1472 m
In the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug there is a mountain that is called Payer. It consists of quartzites and shales. This is not a proto-mountain, but a whole mountain range in which Western and Eastern Payer stand out.
The name came from the Nenets language, from 2 words “what’s up”denoting stone or rock, as well as “erv”, what can be translated as master, it turns out “Lord of Mountains“. Most likely, she received such a name, because. stands out from the rest. On its slopes there are glaciers and snowfields, where snow lies even in summer.
Nearby are lakes, several streams and rivers. Avalanches can come down in winter. There are no forests here, it’s cold all the time, but climbers love this place, because. the slopes of the mountain are steep, interesting for climbing.
5. Yudychvumchorr, Khibiny, 1200 m
On the Kola Peninsula there is a mountain with steep walls and an interesting name Yudychvumchorr. Translated from the Sami, its name means “humming mountain“. It appeared because from time to time the mountain begins to make strange sounds, as if it wants to tell people something. Experts explain it simply: the effect of the wind.
This mountain has a flat top. It is part of the Khibiny. This is one of the largest mountain ranges on the Kola Peninsula. They gradually subside and now look more like huge hills that tourists like to conquer.
Name “Khibiny” comes from the Finnish word “Hiben”, what can be translated as Hill or mountain, or elevation. This is a popular place for tourists who ski and snowmobile on the slopes of the mountains in winter, as well as admire the northern lights.
4. Chasnachorr, Khibiny, 1189 m
In the western part of the Khibiny there is a mountain Chisnachorr, whose name in Sami means “Woodpecker Mountain“. It features steep walls.
Tourists love the Khibiny mountain range, because the mountains here are low, there are many short transitions to the peaks and passes. However, next to Chasnachorr there are the most difficult passes, which are called Cross and Fersman.
3. Oslyanka, Ural, 1119 m
The mountain is located in the Middle Urals, is considered its highest peak. According to one version, it received such a name, because. a river flows nearby Donkey, whose name comes from the word “donkey”, what did river whetstone. According to another version, this mountain has an interesting shape, because of which it was called Oslyanka, from the words “donkey” or “trace”, which means bullshit.
It is stretched for 16 km. The slopes are quite steep, covered with kurums, fir-spruce forests grow up to a height of 800 m, a little higher – mountain-tundra vegetation, and then go loaches.
About 8-10 km from the mountain is the village of Bolshaya Oslyanka, but it has almost died out. In the 70-90s it was considered a special zone, where up to nine hundred people lived, criminals, but already in 1990 there were no more than 200. By 2000, the village was left without inhabitants.
2. Putelichorr, Khibiny, 1113 m
Also located in Khibiny. Taiga is located at the foot of the mountains of this region, dwarf birches and moss grow right there, where you can collect a lot of mushrooms.
Khibiny is loved by climbers, more than 40 climbing routes have been laid here, it is better to go hiking in summer and autumn. mountain name Putelichorr derived from the word “puetted”, what does “alien resident“. There is a version that it appeared when the Saami encountered the base camp of Russian explorers, but perhaps other travelers were meant.
1. More-Iz, Ural, 423 m
Old, heavily destroyed mountains located on the Yugra Peninsula. They are called – Pai Hoi. The highest point of the ridge – Sea-From. The first scientist who spoke about the mountain range was the biologist A.I. Schrenk in 1837, but his work was not immediately published.
The whole world learned about Pai-Khoi in 1848, when the first geological and biological description of the ridge was compiled by an expedition led by E.K. Hoffmann. They also gave the name to the ridge, which in translation from the Nenets meant “Stone Ridge”. The ridge is not a continuous mountain range, it consists of individual hills made of shale, limestone and sandstone.